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THE CLASS OF 1855, 



HAEVAED COLLEGE 



JULY 1855 to JULY 1865. 



Printed f o r the useof the Class-] 



BOSTON: 
PRINTED BY ALFRED MTJDGE & SON, 

34 'Sohool Street. 
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TO THE CLASS OF 1855 



In presenting this outline of our history for the last ten 
years, I must say a word in explanation. 

These pages are printed solely for our own use ; and, for 
their contents, I alone am responsible. My purpose was to state 
what would interest you all, and yet be unpleasant to none. 
My sources of information are numerous ; and none of you is 
in any way accountable for what I may have said of him. If, 
in my wish to give information, I have, in any instance, been 
too free in my words, I can only ask your indulgence for my 
want of success in that respect, as well as for the many errors 
which must have crept into these records. 

To the sixty-six classmates from whom I have received direct 
responses to my circular letter, now only a month old, I give 
my sincere thanks for their promptitude ; and, much more, for 
the very kind answers they sent me. The labor of compiling 
this report alone prevented my yielding to the impulse to reply, 
personally and at once, to the friendly writers. I beg them all 
to continue the correspondence, and hope the rest of you will 
follow their good example. 

In our own records, all who were at any time with us arc 
counted as members of the class. When we call our own roll, 
. we ought to apply a different rule from that which governs the 
Triennial ) and I am sure that you choose to maintain the good 
old principle, " Once a citizen, always a citizen," and to hold that 
no one who has ever been a member of our class is able to shake 
off his allegiance. While a sense <>f duty would, of course, 



oblige us rigorously to enforce this law against all who ever 
took a leave of absence, it is none the less agreeable to find 
those wanderers from the fold not at all averse to being still 
considered to belong to the original flock. 

To Willard and Jones I owe much for their kindness and aid 
in making this report : while Theodore Lyman, in this as always 
in all matters which have concerned the pleasure and interest of 
the class, deserves thanks for his ready and untiring efforts to 
serve them, which the class alone can adequately give. 

This pamphlet has grown so large, through my desire to make 
it interesting to you. that I am also led to advert confidentially 
to certain financial relations which it has with our Treasury and 
the Secretary. The class fund is not large enough to bear the 
expense, inevitable to the undertaking, without breaking down in 
the process ; and I have reason to suspect that the Secretary is 
not altogether eager to pay the bills out of his private purse. In 
short. I venture confidently to assert, that he will not absolutely 
decline to receive,, either personally or by mail, any contribution 
which may be pressed upon him for this purpose, provided, how- 
ever, that the same does not exceed five dollars in amount. 

In conclusion. I have only to add.- that. if. when you read this 
sketch of our doings since we left our Alma Mater, any of you 
shall find the kindly spirit of college days wake into fresh life ; 
or shall have more reverence for it. when he sees what noble. 
manly fruit it bore in Hodges' case, my object in writing is 
accomplished, and all my efforts are amply repaid. 

EDWIN H. ABBOT, 

Boston, No. 4 Cottrt Street, Class Secretary. 

12 July, IS 65. 



MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1855. 



Abbot, Edwin Hale 
Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel 
Allison, William 
Amory, William 
Arnold, Louis 

Badger, William Whittlesey 
Bailey, Jonas Minot 
Balch, John 

Barlow, Francis Channing 
Barnwell, Robert Hayne 
Blake, Samuel Parkman 
Bliss, Willard Flagg 
Brooks, Phillips 
*Brooks, Warren 
Brown, Charles Loring 
Browne, Edward Ingersoll 
Brown, Edward Jackson 
Buck, Charles William 
Burns, AVilliam Coleman 
Chace, Edward Henry 
Chase, Charles Augustus 
Clapp, Channing 
Clark, James Benjamin 
Clark, Randolph Marshall 
Clarke, Thomas William 
Crocker, George Gordon 
Cushing, Joseph M. 
Cutter, Charles Ammi 
Dalton, Edward Barry 
Dexter, George 



Edgerly, John Woods 

*Ellis, Payson Perrix 

Emmerton, James Arthur 

*Erving, Langdon 

Evans, Alfred Douglas 

Evans, William Henry 

Everett, Henry Sidney 

Fiske, Frank William 

Gibbens, Edwin Augustus 

Green, John 

Gregory, Charles Augustus 

Gutman, Joseph 

Hampson, George Henry 

Hayes, Joseph 

Heywood, Joseph Converse 

Higginson, Henry Lee 

Hobbs, Charles Cushing 

*Hodges, George Foster 

Hosmer, James Kendall 

Johnston, Samuel 

Jones, Leonard Augustus 

Lawrence, Samuel Crocker 

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble 

Lyman, Benjamin Smith 

Lyman, Charles Frederic 

Lyman, Theodore 

Maceuen, Malcolm 

Mackay, William 

McKbnzib, William 

McLbllan, George Frederic 






Marsh, Christopher Bridge 
*Meb,iam, William Ward 
Mitchell, James Tyndale 
Morton, Edwin 
Paine, Robert Treat 
*Perkins, Stephen George 
Philbrick, William Dean 
Phillips, Willard Quincy 
Rand, Edward Spragee 
Reed, James 

Richards, William Whiting 
Riddle, William Qtjincy 
Ropes, Nathaniel 
Reppanner, Antoine 
Russell, Edward Grenyille 
Ressell, George Peabody 



Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin 

Sanger, Charles Frederic 

Sawyer, George Carleton 

Schley, Sameel Ringgold 

Seawell, James Manry 

Stone, Charles Francis 

Thwing, Edward Payson 

Tileston, John Boies 

Ventres, William Hosmer Shailer 

Wainwright, Isaac Parker 

Walker, Henry 

Waters, Henry Fitz Gilbert 

Wild, Walter Henry 

Willard, Joseph 

Wright, Smith 

*Yongue, Andrew Lammey 



HARVARD COLLEGE 

CL.ASS OF 1855. 



EDWIN HALE ABBOT. In January, 1855, he had promised 
E. S. Dixwell, Esq., to become the second assistant teacher in the 
latter's Private Latin School, in Boston. In September, 1855, he 
entered upon his new duties, and continued as second, and afterwards 
as first assistant, to teach with Mr. Dixwell until July, 1857, 
when a new tutorship, which was about to be created at Harvard, 
was offered to him by President Walker. Accepting this position. 
he was for the next four years and a half a member of the Faculty 
of Harvard College, holding during that time the different 
tutorships of "Latin and Greek," "Latin," and " Latin and 
Greek Composition and History." In September, 1859, he began 
the study of law, and joined the Harvard Law School. In January, 
1862, he resigned his official connection with the college; removed 
to Boston and entered the office of Hon. Peleg W. Chandler and 
George O. Shattuck, Esq. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar on 11 
November, 1862, and on 1 January, 1863, began the practice of law 
with Messrs. Chandler and Shattuck. On 22d October, 1863, he left 
Messrs. Chandler and Shattuck, and took part of the office of Hon. Geo. 
P. Sanger, where he has since practised. He has no partner; and his 
office is in the famous entry, so well known in the history of the 
Suffolk Bar, " No. 4 Court Street." 

During the seven years immediately after his graduation, he was 
engaged in almost every kind of practical literary work, except novel 
writing, and had more than a hundred different private pupils. His 
life was then, with little change, one of unintermitted, intellectual labor, 
as it is now one of devotion to a profession, which, in moral dignity 



and substantial usefulness, is second to none among human employments. 
His travels have consisted of a few journeys to Washington, the White 
Mountains, Niagara Falls, the Umbagog Lakes, and the Army of the 
Potomac. In July, 1863, he visited Gettysburg, immediately after 
the battle, and in a fortnight brought home the. body of his young 
brother, Edward Stanley Abbot, First Lieutenant in the Seventeenth 
Infantry, United States Army, who fell at the head of his company, 
shot through the breast, in the second day's fight. That was indeed a 
memorable journey. 

He has been a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
and the American Oriental Society. He took the degrees of A.M. and 
LL.B. from Harvard College. 

On j 7 November, 1859, he married Mary, the only daughter of T. 
Harrington and Martha Carter of Newton. Twelve weeks and three 
days from her wedding day, upon Sunday, 12 February, 1860, his wife 
died. 

Your Secretary is aware that there is an entire want of all matter 
for narrative in a life whose surface shows so little variation. But, 
after his urgent appeals to you for your stories, justice claimed the full- 
est application of the rule to himself. 

ALEXANDER E. AGASSIZ. After graduating, he entered the 
Engineering School of the Lawrence Scientific School ; graduated there 
in January, 1857, and took his degree of B.S. He passed three terms 
in the Chemical Department, and in March, 1859, left for California. 
Until this time he had also been engaged in teaching in Prof. Agassiz's 
School for Young Ladies. In San Francisco, he received an appoint- 
ment as aid in the Coast Survey, and went from there to Crescent City, 
surveyed the harbor, and hence to the Northwest Boundary, where he 
was engaged in surveying till the rainy season began. He returned in 
November, 1859, to San Francisco, finished the office- work of the 
season, and then resigned from the Coast Survey. During the winter 
of 1859-60, he passed the greater part of the time at Panama and Aca- 
pulco, collecting specimens for the Museum at Cambridge, having all 
possible facilities given him by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. 
Returning in the spring of 1860 to San Francisco, he remained 
collecting in the vicinity, and studying principally Fishes. As soon 
as the weather permitted, after the close of the rainy season, he 



visited the interior of California, and examined the principal mines, 
returning by way of Mendocino City. He returned to Cambridge in 
July, 1860, having obtained the appointment of Agent of the Museum 
at Cambridge, where he went to work to study for his duties, gradu- 
ating in the Zoological and Geological Department of the Scientific 
School in the winter of 1861. He has remained, since that time, 
attached to the Museum as Assistant in Zoology. He has, at present, 
charge of the Museum, during the absence of the Director. 

He was married on 15 November, 1860, at Brookline, to Anna 
Russell, daughter of George R. and Sarah P. [Shaw] Russell, of 
West Roxbury, and has one son, George Russell Agassiz, born 21 
July, 1862. 

He is a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, Ameri- 
can Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences, of 
Philadelphia, and the Buffalo Society of Natural History. 

He has published the following pamphlets, and notices and memoirs 
in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. 
viii. : — 

1. Notes on the described species of Holconoti. 

2. The marginal tentacles of Hydroids. 

3. Acalephian Fauna of Buzzard's Bay. In same, vol. ix. 

4. On Nanomia cara. 

5. " Halopsis ocellata. 

6. " the geographical distribution of our Sea Urchin. 
In Journal Nat. Hist. Society of Boston, vol. vii. 

7. On alternate generation in Annelids. 

In Proceedings American Academy for 1864. 

8. On the Embryology of Asteracanthion. 

In Memoirs American Academy for 1864. 

9. On the Embryology of Echinoderms. 

In Proceedings Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for 
1864. 

10. Synopsis of the Echinoids of the North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition. 

11. List of Echini sent to different Institutions. 

In Bulletin of Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

12. On the Embryology of the Starfish. [Reprinted from Vol. 5, 
Agassi// s Contributions to Natural History of United States. ] 

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13. Sea-Side Studies in Natural History, by E. C. and Alexander 
Agassiz, June, 1865. 

14. Catalogue of North American Acalephee, being No. 2 of illus- 
trated Catalogue of Museum, July, 18G5. 

WILLIAM ALLISON. I have been unable to learn anything 
about Allison, except that McLellan, while travelling in the West 
-within two years after our graduation, met him, and that he then did 
not appear to be in good health. I have written to the address 
McLellan then gave me, "Jordan's Store, Williamson County, Ten- 
nessee," but have received no answer, and probably my letter never 
reached him. 

WILLIAM AMORY, JR. He was fitted for college at the Boston 
Latin School. Before entering college, he passed the summer of 1851 
in Europe, and then joined us at Harvard. Owing to trouble with his 
eyes, he was obliged to leave during the Freshman year, when 
he made a voyage round the world, visiting California, China, and 
St. Helena. In 1857 and 1858. he passed a year on the Continent. In 
February, 1860, he married Ellen, daughter of Gardner Brewer, Esq., 
of Boston. His daughter, Caroline, was born in February, 1861. He 
is now Treasurer of the Langdon Manufacturing Company, and resides 
at No. 140, Beacon Street, Boston. 

LOUIS ARNOLD. In September, 1855, he entered the Engineer- 
ing Department of the Lawrence Scientific School, and took at the 
end of the first term, 185 7-58, the first degree, B. S., summa cum 
laude. For a year and a half afterwards he was a clerk in Boston. 
Then for two years and a half he was at work in the offices of Messrs. 
E. C. Cabot and A. C. Martin, Architects, in Boston. In 1862, he 
became a clerk again in the same place. In 1863, he was drafted in 
the town of West Roxbury, where he has resided with his parents ever 
since graduation : was held to service, and paid the commutation 
money. During the last half of 1863, he was unemployed, but in 
January, 1864, he became clerk for Messrs. Campbell, Whittier, and 
Company, of Roxbury, corner of Orange and Ruggles Streets, in whose 
employ he still is. He writes that the other questions of the Secre- 
tary do not apply to him. 



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WILLIAM WHITTLESEY BADGER. He went to New York ; 
was admitted to the bar, and had for some time an office on* Wall 
street. He is said to have been in the war, and to have recruited a 
company for the " Stanton Legion," and to have been its captain. 
Where he is at present, I am unable to say. 

JONAS MINOT BAILEY. He left us during our Sophomore 
year ; and, except that he afterwards graduated at a college in the 
Middle States, I am unable to relate anything whatsoever of his 
subsequent history. 

JOHN BALCH. He left college to recover his health, and in 
1855 visited Constantinople and the Crimea. He was afterwards for 
a time in the counting-room of W. H. Goodwin, Esq., in Boston, and 
subsequently lived on a farm in Byfield, Massachusetts, and also stayed 
for some time in Mattoon, Illinois. He is still out of health, 

FRANCIS CHANNING BARLOW. On 10 September, 1855, 
he went to the city of New York, where, being very successful in 
obtaining private pupils, he continued to teach for about a year. He 
then studied law in the office of William Curtis Noyes, Esq., teaching 
a few hours daily. He was admitted to the New-York bar in May, 
1858. He then opened an office, and in the autumn of 1858, formed 
a partnership with George Bliss, Jr., Esq., and continued the practice 
of law until 19 April, 1861. On that day, he enlisted as a private in 
the 12th Regiment New York State Militia, and on 21 April marched 
with the regiment to Washington. On 3 May, 1861, he was promoted 
to be First Lieutenant of Company F in the same regiment. On 
3 August, 1861, he was mustered out of service with his regiment, 
and resumed the practice of law in his old firm. 

He was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 61st Regiment New York 
Volunteers on 9 November, 1861, left New York on the same day 
with his regiment, and was assigned to Brigadier General O. O. How- 
ard's Brigade, in General Sumner's Division, afterwards the First 
Division of the Second Corps. He was made Colonel of the same regi- 
ment on 14 April, 18G2. He went through the Peninsular campaign 
with much credit, and on 17 September, 1862, was wounded .at Antie- 
tam, where he performed conspicuous service, in consequence of 
which, he was made Brigadier General of Volunteers, 19 September, 



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1862, During the winter of 1862 and 1863, lie was absent from duty 

on account of wounds. On 17 April, 1863, he again reported for duty, 
and was assigned to the command of the Second Brigade, Second 
Division, Eleventh Corps, Major General 0. 0. Howard command- 
ing. On 7 May, he was assigned to the command of First Division, 
Eleventh Corps. He was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, 1 July, 

1863, and was absent, for this reason, from the army during the winter 
of 1863 and 1864. 'On 1 April, 1864, he was assigned to the com- 
mand of the First Division, Second Corps, Major General Hancock 
commanding, and on 21 August, 1864, was made Major General by 
brevet. On 24 August, 1864, he left the army, on leave of absence, 
rendered necessary by illness ; and, obtaining permission to go abroad, 
sailed for Europe 9 November, 1864, whence he returned in the fol- 
lowing March. On 4 April, 1865, he was assigned to the command 
of the Second Division, Second Corps, which command he still holds. 
He was made a full Major General 25 May, 1865, and is still in 
service, being on duty near Washington. 

On 20 April, 1861, he married, at New York, Arabella Wharton 
Griffith, of Somerville, Xew Jersey, who died 27 July. 1861. He has 
had no children. He writes, " I have never written anything, and 
never made a speech, and never mean to make one." 

The New-York Tribune of 16 October. 1862, contained the follow- 
ing article. I give it as a piece of contemporaneous history, 
showing something more of his vigorous military career than the 
barren array of dates, which is all the story furnished me by our 
classmate himself: — ■ 

" Gexehax Fbawk Barlow. Among the officers of our army who 
have made themselves conspicuous on the field, few have won their 
laurels by as great personal daring, tactical skill, and heroic suffering, 
as Gen. Frank C. Barlow, now hung at the Brevoort House in a criti- 
cal condition from wounds received at Antietam. The career of this 
young officer is a succession of honors won in the several battles of 
the war. When the call for troops was issued, Barlow relinquished 
at once a growing law practice in this city, and joined the Engineer 
Corps of the 12th Regiment of Militia as a private. Applying to the 
study of the military art the same industry and talent which had 
graduated him at Harvard with the first honor of the class of 1855, 
he was soon promoted by Colonel (now General) Butterfield to a First 



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Lieutenantcy. Returning at the close of his three months' campaign, 
he was commissioned by Governor Morgan as Lieutenant Colonel of 
the 61st Regiment of Volunteers, and with his command was assigned 
to the army of the Potomac. During the siege of Yorktown, he was 
promoted to the vacated Colonelcy of his regiment, and immediately 
infused order and method into its lax discipline. 

"In the second day's battle of Fair Oaks, the 61st Regiment was 
for the first time under fire in a general engagement, and gained from 
Gen. Howard, commanding the brigade, the highest commendation 
for steadiness and dash. In this desperately fought contest, after 
Gen. Howard was wounded, and had retired from the field, Col. Bar- 
low, for a time, was acting Brigadier, and handled his command with 
the tact and coolness of a veteran. In the seven days' fight on the 
Peninsula, his regiment assisted, under Richardson, in covering the 
retreat of the centre and left wing, and were in four fiercely fought 
engagements, never breaking under the severest fire, nor failing to 
repel the charges of the enemy. At the Charles City Cross Roads, 
Col. Barlow had his horse shot under him, and his regiment, in one 
of their charges, took a stand of rebel colors. In the reports of 
these battles, several Division Generals speak of Col. Barlow in the 
highest terms. When the Army of the Potomac was recalled to 
Washington, the 61st could rally to its shot- torn colors but seven 
officers and scarcely a hundred men. With this fragment of a regi- 
ment, to which was attached the remnant of the 64th New York, 
Col. Barlow entered the field of Antietam. His men more than made 
up for their numerical weakness by their thorough discipline and 
firmness. 

" In this battle, Col. Barlow, by a skilful manoeuvre, outflanked the 
regiments opposing him, and captured two stands of colors, with 
three hundred prisoners, eight of whom were officers. General Cald- 
well, in his report of the engagement of his division, uses the follow- 
ing language : ' I cannot forbear to mention in terms of the highest 
praise, the part taken by Col. Barlow of the 61st Volunteers. What- 
ever praise is due to the most distinguished bravery, the utmost cool- 
ness and, quickness of perception, the greatest promptitude and skill 
in handling troops under fire, is justly due him. It is but simple 
justice to say that he has proved himself equal to every emergency, 



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and I have no doubt that he would discharge the duties of a much 
higher command with honor to himself and benefit to his country.' 

" Near the close of the battle, Col. Barlow received a severe wound 
in the groin from a canister shot, which nearly proved fatal. He was 
borne insensible from the field, and is still confined to a pain-racked 
couch, although his friends hope for his recovery. His commission as 
Brigadier General of Volunteers, received two days after the battle of 
Antietam, reads, ' For distinguished conduct at the battle of Fair 
Oaks,' and dates from that event." 

ROBERT HAYNE BARNWELL. After leaving college he was 
very much troubled with dyspepsia. In September 1855, he entered 
the Engineering deparment of the Lawrence Scientific School. In 
January 1856, he went home to Beaufort, South Carolina, sick; but 
on regaining his health, he returned to Cambridge, Avhere he continued 
during the rest of 1856 and 1857, when he again went South. 

His subsequent career is not known to me, though several stories 
have reached me. The only report upon which I place reliance, is this, 
contained in a classmate's letter, who writes : — "I have been informed 
"by a gentleman in New Orleans, that Barnwell early entered the 
" Confederate Army, and held at that time" [a year and a half ago] 
"the commission of Major in a South Carolinian regiment." 

I have also been told that before the war he had become Professor 
in a Southern College. 

SAMUEL PARKMAN BLAKE. When he left college in 1855, 
he entered the office of Messrs. Kettell, Collins, & Co., of Boston, 
Commission Merchants, engaged in the West-India trade, for whom 
he acted as buying clerk, and with whom he remained until June, 

1857, when he went for them, as supercargo, to New Grenada and 
the Northern coast of South America, and the port of Rio Hacha, 
visiting Curacoa, Santa Martha, Carthagena, and other South- American 
cities, on business for the firm. He returned in December of the 
same year. The firm failed, but he still continued with them until July, 

1858, when he went again for them to Curacoa and Rio Hacha, return- 
ing in December, 1858. "On these trips," he writes, "I had a 
very varied experience, — hard times and pleasant times ; was dis- 
masted once, and short of provisions and water for two weeks at a 
time, but was always well, and profited much by my experience in that 



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country." In June, 1859, he left Messrs. Kettell, Collins, & Co., and 
became partner of Charles Amory, Jr., of Boston, for a commission 
business in yarns, dry goods, &c, in Philadelphia, whither he imme- 
diately proceeded. He writes, "I have done a great deal of hard 
work in Philadelphia, but like it very much, particularly in respect to 
its delightful society." In January, 1865, he arranged to take the 
house of Charles Amory & Co., New York, in conjunction with his 
Philadelphia business, and has since been travelling between the two 
cities, which he will continue to do for the next six months, when he 
expects to establish himself permanently in Philadelphia. 

Since the commencement of the war, he has belonged to the Home 
Guard Artillery, of Philadelphia, having been prevented, by the pres- 
sure of business, from active military service. The success of the 
battle of Gettysburg alone stopped this organization from going to 
the field. 

In the spring of 1864, he was quite sick with inflammatory rheu- 
matism, which seriously interfered with his work. Otherwise, he 
has been well. He has visited Canada West ; and, on 18 June, 1865, 
assures me that he is neither married nor engaged. 

WILLARD FLAGG BLISS. He kept school in Meadville, Penn- 
sylvania, for a year after leaving college. He became in 1856, an 
instructor in the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, where 
he stayed until 1858, when he visited Europe ; spent some time in 
classical studies at one or more of the German Universities ; trav- 
elled in Italy, Greece, and other parts of Europe, and returned to the 
United States in 1859, and resumed the work of teaching in Washing- 
ton University, where he continued until 1860. 

In the summer of 1860, he married Miss Lizzie Tyler, of Vermont, 
resigned his position in the University, and began farming, in 
Dorchester, Illinois. In this pursuit he was decidedly successful. He 
sold his farm in 1864, but at last accounts, was still residing in or near 
Dorchester. He has one son, George Willard Bliss, who was born in 
1862. Letters sent to Dorchester, or to the care of Willard C. Flagg, 
Paddock's Grove, Illinois, will probably reach him. 

PHILLIPS BROOKS. He writes: "I shall certainly be at 
" Commencement, and shall not miss the dinner on Commencement day. 
" As to your other questions, 1 have very little to say. ! have had no 



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" wife, no children, no particular honors, no serious misfortunes, and no 
" adventures worth speaking of. It is shameful .at such times as these 
" not to have a history, but I have not got one, and must come with- 
" out." 

As it is manifestly improper to present you merely this meagre 
account of so distinguished a classmate, I am forced to make up a 
history for him from other sources. 

On leaving college he taught at the Public Latin School in Boston, 
for a year, when he began to study for the Episcopal ministry, and 
went to the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. He spent 
three years there ; and, when he took orders, was ordained as Rector 
of the Church of the Advent in the city of Philadelphia. He con- 
tinued in charge of this parish for two years. He was then settled 
over the Church of the Holy Trinity in that city, of which Society he 
still is the pastor. 

He is among the most prominent clergymen of Philadelphia, where 
he has made himself quite useful. He has also done his part to aid 
his country in all the ways which are suited to his profession. I met 
him on the hills of Gettysburg a week after the battle whither he 
had hastened to help those who needed help so much. He is still 
unmarried, and is about starting to visit Europe for a year's absence 
and travel, after which he will return to his parish, which is enthu- 
siastically attached to its minister. 

* WARREN BROOKS. The following notice is copied from the 
Cambridge Chronicle of 7 March, 1857 : — 

" Harvard Graduates. 1855. Died at Townsend, Mass., on 
Feb. 4, 1857, Warren Brooks, son of Samuel Brooks, Esq., of that 
place. 

" Warrren Brooks was born at Townsend, Mass., on Feb. 15, 1831. 
He began to prepare for college in May, 1850, when he entered the 
Academy at New Ipswich, N. H. After staying there two terms, he 
left New Ipswich in the autumn, and entered Meriden Academy. He 
remained at Meriden six months, when in 1851, he joined the Fresh- 
man Class at Yale College. He continued at Yale two years ; when, 
having, as he states in the Class Book, a desire to study the Modern 
Languages, he left New Haven and entered Harvard College, in 1853, 
as a member of the Junior Class. At Yale, he gained during the 



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Freshman year a prize for Greek Composition. During his course of 
study he taught school for several winters. In July, 1855, he took his 
degree with his class, and in September, 1855, entered the Theological 
Seminary at Andover. His failing health obliged him, in 1856, to re- 
linquish his studies ; and, leaving the seminary, he returned to his home 
in Townsend. He himself supposed that the consumption, of which 
he died, was induced by an attack of the typhoid fever, during August, 
1856 ; but his physicians think it may be traced further back. He was 
even told, while studying at Cambridge, that his lungs were diseased ; 
but his desire to complete his theological studies made him disregard 
medical advice. His strength failed so gradually that he was not 
aware of his near approach to the other world until a few hours 
before his departure. He passed away peacefully. 

" Since Warren Brooks entered Harvard College at the beginning of 
the junior year, and was absent much of the two succeeding years of 
collegiate life, he was not so generally known throughout the class as 
its older and more constant members. His whole scholastic career 
was moreover embarrassed by pecuniary troubles. While few perhaps 
of his classmates knew much of his personal history or his peculiar 
difficulties, no one could help respecting him as an honest, indepen- 
dent man, who met his duties resolutely and did his best to be faithful 
to them. His whole bearing showed a man of firm principle, and 
would have commanded the confidence even of a stranger. He is the 
first member of the class of 1855 who has gone to the other world, 
since the first day of College life gave to the class its name ; and every 
classmate must feel that a good man has been removed from our earth- 
ly sight." E. H. A. 

CHARLES LORING BROWN. He left us during the Freshman 
year, and I have not been able to trace him since that time. 

EDWARD INGERSOLL BROWNE. Upon graduating, he 
went to the Harvard Law School, where he passed three terms, and 
then entered the office of Edward D. Sohier and Charles A. W f elch, 
Esquires, of Boston, where he spent a year and a half. He was then 
admitted to the Suffolk Bar in July, 1858. Since this time, he has 
been practising law, at No. 16 Court Street, sharing the office of 
Hon. Edward G. Loring, but without having any business connection 
with him. 

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On 31 May, 1860, he sailed for Europe, and returned to Boston on 
17 October of the same year, haying in that time made a hasty 
journey through England, and travelled on the continent, going as far 
east as Vienna, and as far south as Xaples. He is unmarried. 

EDWARD JACKSON BROWN. He writes: " During one year, 
terminating in the Summer of 1856, I was associated with Mr. Willard 
in the management of a private school in Philadelphia. Returning to 
Massachusetts early in the autumn of 1856, I remained until winter, 
when I started westward, to take a clerkship in the dry goods jobbing 
house, of Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., of Chicago. Soon after the expi- 
ration of my second year's experience in Western trade, I left Chicago 
early in the spring of 1859, to form a business connection, — which 
still continues, — and to engage in the manufacture of bags, at Saint 
Louis, Missouri, with J. M. Bemis, Esq., under the firm name and 
style of Bemis and Brown. Since 1861, our business has become 
rather more extended, and has partaken of a more general character; 
so that I have resided in Boston, as a buyer of domestic cotton goods, 
for the Western house, and as a seller of cotton, flour, and other South- 
western products, purchased in Saint Louis. 

" On 2 December, 1863, I married, in Boston, Mary Eliza, daughter 
of Charles and Susan Brown of Boston, and we have one son. Charles 
Farwell Brown, born on 20 January. 1865. Any account of my 
experience since graduation would present few incidents worthy of 
note, save such as were naturally attendant upon establishing a 
business in the West. I have had occasion repeatedly to travel over 
the Western States bordering on the lakes ; and in the valleys of the 
Mississippi and Missouri, but have not been called to such years of 
adventure and privation as our New England volunteers have cheer - 
fullv met in the swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana. Since my 
subsequent residence in Boston, I have seen little change worth 
reporting.'' 

CHARLES WILLIAM BUCK. He lef+ us and went to Amherst 
College at the end of our Sophomore year, where he graduated 
in 1855. In September, 1860, he entered the Middle Class at the 
Theological School at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and is said to have 
been in the practice of law at St. Louis before that time. Having 



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entered the Theological School a year in advance, he graduated in 
June, 1862. He then came East and, after preaching in several 
places, supplied the pulpit of Reverend Edward H. Hall, of Plymouth, 
Massachusetts, who had gone to the war as chaplain. About a year 
after graduating, he became pastor of a Unitarian Society in Fall 
River, where he now lives, 

About the time at which he went to Fall River, he married Mary, 
daughter of Reverend Oliver Stearns, D. D., formerly President of 
the Meadville School, and now Professor in the Divinity School at 
Cambridge. 

WILLIAM COLEMAN BURNS. In O.ctober, 1855, he entered 
the counting-house of Messrs. Lord, Warren, Evans & Co., commis- 
sion merchants, New York, and remained with them and their 
successors, Haynes, Lord & Co., till August, 1859, when he entered 
the counting-house of Messrs. Morton, Grinnell & Co., of the same 
city, also commission merchants. He remained in their employ till 
December, 1860. In September, I860, he went to Europe to see his 
brother Walter, graduate of the class of 1856, who was lying very ill 
in Manchester, England. He travelled in England, France and 
Switzerland, returning home in November, 1860. Meanwhile his own 
health, being very much shattered by over-work, compelled him to 
give up business entirely, and go home to Newport, Rhode Island. 
In May, 1864, he visited Europe again, accompanying his mother, 
Mrs. William Burns, who went abroad for her health. This time he 
travelled in England ; France; Southern Germany; Switzerland, par- 
ticularly among the high Alps, and Northern Italy, and returned in 
November, 1864. He spent the winter of 1864-'65 in New York. 

In 1859 he was elected member of the Chamber of Commerce in 
New York. He has never been married. 

EDWARD HENRY CHACE. He studied law with Hon. William 
Curtis Noyes, in New York city, where he is said to have been en- 
gaged in practice subsequently. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS CHASE. From 1 September, 1855, to 
1 April, 1862, he was attached to the Boston Daily Advertiser, as 
reporter and Assistant Editor. Resigning this situation in April, 
1862, he sailed for Europe, and made a tour through England, France, 



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Italy, the Tyrol, Eavaria, Switzerland, down the Rhine to Holland 
and Belgium, and returned to London, during the Great Exhibition 
of that year. He travelled th net through England. Scotland, and 
the North of Ireland. He arrived at New York. 27 Ang st, 1862, 
since which time his residence has been at Worcester, Massachusetts. 
He has studied no profession. 

In April, 1863, he was elected Secretary of the Worcester Lyceum, 
and Library Association: in January. 1864, Secretary of the AVer:. 
Natural History Society; and in November, 1864, Treasurer of the 
County of Worcester, which offices he still holds. 

He was married 2. April, 1863, to Mary Theresa daughter of 
John and Alary E. Clark; of Boston. 

He took the degree of A. M. at Cambridge in 1858. He may be 
regarded as the financial man of Worcester Comity henceforward. 

CHANNING CLAPP. From 1855, to the beginning of the war, 
he was engaged in mercantile life in Boston, being at one time in the 
counting room of John M. Forbes, Esc. On 19 Deceml ::. 18 51, he 

received a commission as First Lieutenant, in the 1st Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Cavalry. He left Readville, with the regiment, on the 25th 
of the same month, and proceeded to Annapolis, Maryland, where he 
remained some weeks, until the regiment went to Port Royal. South 
Carolina. During part of the time, that the regiment was stationed 
there, he acted as Post Adjutant. He wa ut at the action on 

James Island, probably as staff officer, as the regiment did not take 
any : : Live part in the battle. In August, 1862, the regiment was 
ordered to Virginia, where they saw very hard service. 

Onl4 September, 1862. he was commissioned as Captain, in the same 
regiment, vrhich continued to serve in Virginia and Maryland. On 8 
May. 1863, he was ^pointed by the President, Assistant Adjutant 
General of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain on the staff of Gen- 
eral Benham, of the Engineer Brigade, in which capacity he has 
continued to serve, until the present time. He has resigned his com- 
mission, and when last heard of, was waiting in Washington, to receive 
his discharge papers. He is unmarried. 

The friend who supplied me with these facts, after acknowledging 
that they are few, adds : "I may say that I think I have told you as 
much as vou would have got from him, as he is never inclined to 



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enlarge on his own life." I saw him several times at City Point, 
Va., in March last, and he was not absolutely emaciated by the 
hardships of war at that time. 

JAMES BENJAMIN CLARK. After leaving college he was in 
the South sometime, perhaps several years, during which period and as 
late as 1857, he studied law in his brother's office at Jackson, Missis- 
sippi. He came to Boston in 1859, and went to Europe in 1860. 
Returning in May or June, 1861, he went South to his home. He 
afterwards joined the 18th Regiment Mississippi Infantry, as a private, 
in which capacity he acted a year or more, and then became Second 
Lieutenant. He has served all the time in Virginia, being present at 
Ball's BlufT; the Peninsular campaign of General McClellan; the An- 
tietam campaign and battle ; and at both the Fredericksburg battles. 
When General Sedgwick captured the latter city, in the Chancellorsville 
campaign he was taken prisoner, and detained at Washington ; but, 
being speedily exchanged, he was released in time to participate in the 
Gettysburg campaign and battle. Shortly after this, he was taken 
prisoner, and kept at Johnson's Island until February, 1865, when he 
was exchanged and went back South, being present with General 
Lee's Army when it surrendered. His post-office address is Warren- 
ton, North Carolina. He is not yet married. 

A classmate writes of- Clark as follows: "While in Paris, I saw 
something of Clark. He did not have much heart in the secession 
movement. The South Carolinians there talked to him a great deal, 
and used every effort to convert him. I last saw him in December, 
1860, when he was still wavering. We had many conversations on 
the subject ; and, upon our parting, congratulated ourselves that at 
all events our respective homes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and 
Jackson, Mississippi, would be safe."' 

RANDOLPH MARSHALL CLARK. A severe illness obliged 
him to leave college at the first Junior exhibition, and he never 
returned. In January, 1854, he went to Cuba, where he passed the 
winter, returning through the Southern and Western States, and sail- 
ing for Europe in July of the same year. The summer he passed in 
travelling, and visited Russia, Northern Germany, and Italy, - while he 
devoted the winter to study, with a tutor, at Dresden. He returned 
to the United States in November, 1855, and immediately entered the 



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Banking House of J. W. Clark & Co.. and the following year 
admitted partner. Here he remained fill ~_^:S. when fa 

king House of Clark. Cheney, vk Co., in which he continued till the 
beginning of the war. He entered the United States service 26 De- 
cember. 1861, having obtained a commission as Firs: Lieutenant in 
the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, and was immediately ordered to South 
Carolina, where the re_: a stationed till after the Peninsular 

campaign, when, with two battalions of the regiment, he joined Gen- 
eral McClellan at Alexandria, and remained in the advance till L 
retreat across the Potomac. 19 September, IS 62. He vs-as then 
trans:: :: : Headquarters ::" the it Sharpsburg, and 

acti I : I ttalion Quartermaster of the 1st Regiment Massachv 

. iry. then serving as escort to General Fitz John Porter, and 
afterwards to General Hooker. Early id December he was ordered to 
Massachusetts by the War Department to take a commission in the 
2d Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry, under Colonel Lowell ; but. on 
his arrival, being seized with malarial fever, his health did not become 
sufficiently re-established during the winter and spring to admit of his 
return to the army. He was. therefore, honorably discharged, upon 
surgeon's certificate, on account of disability. 8 Aug 3, having 

been promoted on 6 January. 1863, to the rank of Captain in the 1st 
Regiment Massachnsc - airy. 

He was married in New York 17 May, 1864, to Mary, youngest 

daughter ct Rev. A. H. Vinton, D.D.. Rector :: St Mark's Church, 

Xew York. Since his marriage, he has resided in Boston, and been 

ged in the manufactori g isiness. His present place of busi- 

is No. 28, Milk Street. Boston. 

He says he has never published anything. He took his degrees 
regularly, and is now A.M.* 

* I am glad of this opportunity to mention a favor which Clark rendered to the 
in 1858. The class-fund, together with the cradle-appropriation, had given me just 
money enough to make quite an advantageous investment, paving ten per cent, and 
comfortable income for our annual meetings. McKenzie , s precipita- 
tion, however, called for the cradle before I had saved enough from our income to pay 
for it; and the impecuniou3 condition of a literary man did not make it convenient for 
that time to ad~ Lobars I —anted. The baby could not 

: to accumulate, and there:" bo Clark, told him the tale, 

offered him the negotiable promissory note of the class, ( ! ) and wished to borrow the 
u:::ev. lie. :L.;:zl a p::fe:s: :r.;.". : ..:.ke:\ k:.:.'.'.y '.■: 



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THOMAS WILLIAM CLARKE. In September, 1855, he entered 
the law office of Henry M. Parker, Esq., Boston, and, while there, 
assisted Hon. Joel Parker in the revision of statutes, afterward adopted 
as the General Statutes, in 1860. In March, 1856, he was a resident 
graduate at Harvard, and took the prize for an essay on " Political 
and Economical Effects of Law, regulating succession to estates of 
deceased persons." He was admitted to practice in 1857, and in 
September of that year, entered the Harvard Law School, where he 
remained until May, 1858. In this year he began to practise in 
Boston, in company with Mr. H. W. Johnson, and afterwards in 1859, 
with C. S. Woodman and E. K. Phillips, under the firm of Woodman, 
Clarke & Phillips. In 1859 he was elected Commissioner of Insol- 
vency. 

When the war broke out, he began to raise, on '20 April, 1861, the 
first three years' company which was raised in Boston, the " Wight- 
man Rifles," and, on 20 May, left for Fortress Monroe. He was 
present at Big Bethel in May, 1861. In 1862 he was attached to the 
29th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and was at the battles of 
Hampton Roads, Gaines' Mill, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, White- 
Oak Swamp, Glen Dale, and Malvern Hill. After the latter battle 
he became disabled from exposure, and subsequently became Quarter- 
master at the camp of paroled prisoners at Alexandria, Va. He 
rejoined his regiment at the West in the spring of 1863, and was at 
the battle of Jackson, siege of Vicksburg, battles of Blue Springs, 
Campbell's Station, Fort Saunders, and Knoxville. On 2 January, 
1864, he re-enlisted for three years, and, with his regiment, joined the 
Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in the following battles : — 
Bethesda Church ; Shady-Grove Road ; Castleville ; Petersburg, on 
1 7 June ; Cemetery Hill ; Blick's Station, and several others, including 
that of Fort Stedman. In the spring of 1864 he was appointed 
Assistant Adjutant General in General McLaughlin's brigade. On 8 



and never even spoke of it to me, until, two years afterwards, I found myself able, by 
uniting the resources of the class of 1855 and my own private purse, to redeem their 
paper. I liave not been reduced to the necessity, since that time, of applying to our 
friendly hanker to discount any more of that highly merchantable article which he so 
readily took off my hands in 1858. But thai is the only reason why 1 have not availed 
myself of his unsolicited promise to buy all of it that 1 chose to put upon the market 
and to hold it until 1 wished to pay ! 



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November, 1864, he was appointed Colonel of the 29th Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers. He is not married, and is still in the 
service. 

•GEORGE GORDON CROCKER. He several years since married 
Helen, daughter of the late Richard Devens, Esq., of Charlestown, 
Massachusetts, and is said to be, and to have been for some years, 
connected with his father in business. He lives in Taunton. 

JOSEPH MACKENZIE CUSHING. " I have lived" he writes, 
" in Baltimore and tried to sell books constantly since 1855 : went 
neither to Europe or Richmond during the rebellion, hence have seen 
no foreign countries. 

" I became a partner in the house of Cushings and Bailey on 1 July 
1857, and am still a member of that firm, engaged in the book busi- 
ness. I was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention 
of Maryland, on the first Wednesday of April, 1864, and took my 
seat in that body on 27 April following. I was elected member of 
Maryland Historical Society in May, 1855. . . . Since January last 
I have been trying to get the people of Maryland to believe that 
black men have a right to be taught to read ; and, to effect that end, 
have been engaged with others in establishing free schools for black 
people, in Baltimore and throughout Maryland. In July, 1863, I 
served two weeks as guard on the Tobacco barricade, in Baltimore ; 
got very wet often, tired and dirty, but did not shoot a rebel. 
In 1864, I served as Quartermaster for the "Union Club"' com- 
pany of militia, which garrisoned Fort Number Seven in the vicinity 
of Baltimore. I fed the command on bread, English pickles, hams, 
coffee, sardines, claret punch, whiskey, cheese, potatoes, tongues, 
soda crackers, and corned beef. I narrowly escaped being shot by 
the negro troops, who were encamped in our neighborhood, and only 
avoided death from the bullets of the company to which I belonged, 
because they did not shoot off their guns. I entertained, several 
times, the staff of the Department commander, and sympathized with 
their regrets that they could not come out and camp with us. ... I 
am more sorry than I can well express, that I cannot meet the class 
this summer. If any ask after me, give many kind remembrances." 

Cushing has been a most useful and ♦influential man in Baltimore 
during the past four years. As an active member of the wealthy 



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firm to which he belongs, as well as from his own social position, he 
was, early in the war, able to render important service to the country 
by a bold and vigorous support in every way of Union men and the 
Union cause. Living in the border, where patriotism meant some- 
thing, because it cost something, he Avas true to his country under 
most difficult circumstances, and he now takes a leading position 
among the real leaders of public sentiment in that city, which is very 
uncommon for so young a man to attain. The class and the college 
have reason to be proud of its present representative in Baltimore. 

CHARLES AMMI CUTTER. He remained in Cambridge after 
July, 1855, busy with study, and in preparing two pupils for college. 
In September, 1856, he entered the Divinity School, and in 1857, 
wrote a Bowdoin prize dissertation on " Persecutions for Religion's 
sake, during the Colonial Period of New England." During the Mid- 
dle and Senior years, he had charge of the Library of the school, 
consisting of about twelve thousand volumes, which he re-arranged, 
and in conjunction with Charles Noyes, of the class of 1856, prepared 
a new manuscript catalogue of it. He graduated on 19 July, 1859, 
delivering a dissertation on " Faith and Criticism." After preaching 
in various towns, he went in May, 1860, to the College Library, " as 
assistant in Mr. Ezra Abbot's department " which relates to cataloguing 
and arranging the books, where he is still employed. In July and 
August, 1861, he made a pedestrian tour to the White Mountains. 
On 21 May, 1863, he married Sarah Fayerweather, daughter of Sophia 
(Haven), and the late Charles J. Appleton, formerly of Cambridge, 
afterwards of Portsmouth. His son Louis Fayerweather, was born 30 
June, 1864. Since 14 January, 1865, he has, in addition to his duties 
at the College Library, had temporary charge of the location, and 
cataloguing of the books, at the Boston Public Library. 

EDWARD BARRY DALTON. In October, 1855, he began the 
study of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New 
York City, where he graduated in October, 1858. Six months before 
graduating, he received an appointment as "Interne" at Bcllevue 
Hospital, New York, where he remained eighteen months, and then 
received the appointment of Resident Physician and Surgeon of St. 
Luke's Hospital, New York. He remained in this position until the 
outbreak of the rebellion, when he at once resigned, and entered 
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the service as Surgeon of the United States Gunboat " Quaker City," 
in which capacity he served about five months, when he relinquished 
it to enter the army. He was commissioned as Surgeon of the 
36th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, on 31 October, 1861, 
and in this position passed through the Peninsular, Maryland, and 
Virginia campaigns, closing with the first battle of Fredericksburg, 
under General Burnside. During the subsequent winter he was on 
detached duty as Medical Inspector of the Sixth Corps, on the Staff 
of Major-General Sedgwick. In March, 1863, he resigned his regi- 
mental commission, and accepted that of Surgeon of United States 
Volunteers, bearing date of 26 March, 1863. He was stationed 
during the following summer at Fortress Monroe, as Medical Inspector 
of the Department of Virginia, and, during the subsequent winter, 
at Portsmouth, Virginia, in charge of the Balfour United States 
General Hospital. In February, 1864, he M*as relieved, and ordered 
to report at Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, then at 
Brandy Station, Virginia, where he was assigned to duty as 
Medical Inspector of the Army of the Potomac. Acting as 
such, through the campaign, beginning with the battle of the 
Wilderness, it became his duty to superintend the removal of the 
wounded, and to provide for their subsequent care in temporary field 
hospitals, at the various points which successively constituted the 
base of the army, viz : at Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White House 
and City Point. At this latter place, during the autumn and winter 
of 1864-5, he was intrusted with the organization and conduct of 
Depot Field Hospitals for the army, of a more permanent character 
then they had hitherto had. In March, 1865, he was relieved from 
this duty, and made Medical Director with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, 
on the staff of Major-General Parke, commanding the Ninth Army 
Corps, which then held the right of the line before Petersburg. After 
the battle before Petersburg, which resulted in the expulsion of the 
enemy from their fortifications, and from Richmond, and their flight 
toward Danville, he was temporarily detached from the Ninth Corps 
to take charge, as on the previous campaign, of the removal of the 
wounded of the army from the battle-field, and was engaged in this 
service at the time of the surrender of the rebel forces by General 
Robert E. Lee, at Appomattox Court House. The Ninth Corps 
which he then rejoined, was soon after ordered to Washington, where 



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for a few weeks in addition to the Corps, he was charged with the 
medical direction of all the forces south of the Potomac, and the sick 
and wounded who were arriving at Alexandria from the Armies of 
the Potomac, of Georgia, and of Tennessee. In the latter part of 
April he tendered his resignation, which was accepted on 12th May, 
1865. He has since been visiting his friends in the North. 

He married, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 7 February, 1803, 
Sarah Horton, youngest daughter of the late Warren Colburn, the 
illustrious arithmetician. 

No man's record in the war is fairer than Dalton's. He has dis- 
played no little executive ability in managing the immense and 
profoundly important interests intrusted to his care. His whole 
strength has been devoted to the service, and every one who has been 
so fortunate as to have had the opportunity of personal knowledge of 
the manner in which his work has been done, knows how well he 
deserves the honorable reputation he has won in the army. The mere 
list which I have given of the successive medical positions filled by 
him speaks for itself. His work has been purely to ameliorate the 
horrors of war, and to no volunteer surgeon in the service is more 
credit due, or, as I personally know, more credit given than to Surgeon 
Dal ton, of the Class of 1855. He has shown not merely the skill of 
an accomplished surgeon, and a noble devotion to his professional 
duties in the midst of danger, and at times under the pressure of 
illness so great as almost to cost him his life, but he has also evinced a 
rare ability for organizing labor and controlling men, whereby, indi- 
rectly, the lives absolutely of thousands have probably been saved. 
In the Medical Department there is not enough military rank to repre- 
sent relatively the services of surgeons and soldiers. If there were, 
Dalton would wear to-day the shoulder-straps of a full Major General. 

GEORGE DEXTER. He writes, « Soon after graduating, I 
became ' a boy again,' in the Banking House of Brown Brothers & 
Co., in Boston. After a few months there, I went into the counting 
house of a Calcutta firm, and in the summer of 1857, sailed in one 
of their vessels for Australia, where I spent some six weeks in and 
about Melbourne, and then sailed for Calcutta. I arrived there at 
the close of 1857, and lived, or rather existed, till March, 1SG0, when 
I left Calcutta, with but little health and less fortune, and returned 



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by the overland route, spending two or three months in Europe, 
reaching Boston in the summer of 1860. In October of the same 
year, I went to Xew Orleans, with very good business prospects, which 
the breaking out of the war destroyed. I came Xorth in May, 1861, 
and, expecting the war would soon be over, did little or nothing till 
March, 1863, when I Avent to Xew York and established myself as a 
cotton buyer for the Eastern Mills. This business I continue, up to 
the present date." 

JOHX WOODS EDGERLY. He stayed in Somerville for about a 
year after leaving Cambridge, and acted as clerk and book-keejjer in 
the McLean Asylum for the Insane. He then went "West, and for some 
months lived in Chicago, and then removed to Iowa. He was con- 
nected first, as clerk, and afterwards as agent, at the Western termi- 
nus with the Burlington and Missouri Railroad for over two years. 
He then, in the spring of 1860, left the road, and was employed at 
Ottumwa, Iowa, and became clerk in the hardware store and express 
office of W. Daggett, with whom in the following year he formed a 
partnership at Ottumwa, under the firm name of Daggett and Edgerly, 
with which firm he still continues to be actively connected. 

On 20th January, 1863, he married Maria L., daughter of Samuel 
G. and Louisa Chambers, of Ottumwa. They have one son who was 
born on 15 January, 1864, and whom they call Edward Tyler 
Edgerly. 

*PAYSOX PERR1X ELLIS. The following notice of our class- 
mate appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser, over familiar initials, 
on 4 January, 1864, and it states all that is known to me of his life : 

" Payson Pen-in Ellis, son of Jonathan Ellis, Esq., of this city, died 
at Shanghae in China, Sept. 26th. 1863. He was born in Boston, 
June 20th, 1833. In 1851 he entered college, was present with his 
class during its entire academic course, and graduated with it in 1855. 
Soon after leaving the university, he began, in the counting-house of 
Messrs. Ritchie & Perkins, to fit himself for the life of a merchant ; 
and there remained for about two years, till the great financial crisis of 
1857. Seeing that the paralysis of commerce was complete, and likely 
to last for some time, he determined to avail himself of this period of 
inactivity to make a voyage round the world, and to see for himself 



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the great markets of the east. Leaving the country in April, 1858, 
he arrived at midsummer in Penang, whence he proceeded to Singa- 
pore, and to Batavia, where he had an opportunity of visiting the in- 
terior of Java. Thence he sailed for Hong Kong and Shanghae, and 
saw the great cities of Soochow and Hangchow, just then opened, for 
the first time, to foreigners. 

" Crossing then to Manilla, he again returned to Hong Kong, on his 
way to Calcutta, where he arrived in January, 1859, and took the over- 
land route for the continent, getting to Trieste in February. After a 
short tour in Germany, North Italy and France, he sailed for America, 
and in June again reached home. But the chances for a beginner 
were little better then than they had been a twelvemonth before. 
Therefore he determined with many regrets, and not without a certain 
foreboding, to leave all that was dear and pleasant to him, and to seek, 
in a far country and among people of uncongenial thought and educa- 
tion, that fortune, in pursuit of which so many young men have 
hazarded the stake of their lives. He set out for China by the way 
of San Francisco, in January, 1860. From that time until his death, 
he held the situation he had acccepted in the house of Augustine 
Heard and Company, and lived, first in Hong Kong, afterwards in 
Shanghae. Against disappointment and failing health he bore up, 
year after year, and yielded at last only when it was too late. He was 
preparing to return to this country when he was attacked by a fatal 
disease, the result of long exposure to an unhealthy climate. 

" Perrin Ellis was a man of entire loyalty to those he loved ; and 
it was this quality, before all others, that gained for him the many 
warm friends, by whom his memory will always be held dear. He 
was endowed with an unusual amount of that rarest of gifts, common 
sense ; to which were naturally added a sound judgment, and the 
most open honesty in word and deed. In conversation he was very 
entertaining, and had a ready and pleasant wit. Neither sickness nor 
adversity could weigh down his buoyancy of spirit, a happy trait, that 
came in part from natural temperament, in part from a courage that 
raised him above all weak complaint. 

" It is hard to believe that such a man is gone. He was one of 
those that seem full of the very spirit of vitality, and who should live 
long, and sink at last at a good old age. His death brings back once 
again to us the sorrowful words of the Greek poet : — 



11 ■ Man is all inventive ; boundless in resource he presses ttward the 
future. On"y from the grave may he : scape. 1 T. L." 

JAMES ARTHUR EMMERTON. In September, 185-5, he 
began the study of medicine, attending the Tremont-sr.ee: Medical 
School, and the lectures at the college, and residing meantime at 
Salem. In November. 183 rile still pursuing his studies, he took 
rooms in 1 -:.:.. In April, 1857, he went to the State Hospital on 
Rainsford Island in Boston harbor, where He remained a year. On 
4 July, 1858, he passed his examination for M.D.. and in August :t 
the same year, took passage in the steamer Persia for Europe. He 
visited London. Antwerp, and Paris, and resided three months, 
during the fall and winter of 1858-59, at Dublin. In 11 - r 

I - 59, he travelled through the Western United States, and visited all 
the principal cities. On 1 October, 1861, he headed the Enlistment 
Roll of Company E. 23 BCass shnsetts Volunteer Infantry, and was 

.nted corporal. " At the battle of Roanoke Island," 5 lie writes, 
" I served, with a volunteer crew, a Dahlgren boat howitzer, which 

landed from our transport. The gun was not in action, but 
stationed in the line of fire. Three of the crew were wounded. At 
the battle of Xewberne I served on the same gun, which opened 
the action."" Soon after this battle, he was ordered to proceed Xorth 
to assist in the care of the wounded. Early in April, 1862, he was 
detailed to act - Assistant Surgeon, and accompany the regiment on 
picket duty at Batchelder's Creek. He continued to act in this posi- 
tion till 31 July, 1862, when he was commissioned as Assistant Sur- 
geon, and on 21 Aug) L8 _. was ::dered to Roanoke Island. 

he remained till 2 v Se] tember, 1862, when he was appointed 

- _ Plymouth, Xorth Carolina. In January, 1863, he 

and ordered to the Foster General Hospital, at New- 
berne, where he remained, with only a few days" intermission, till 22 
1863, when he rejoined his regiment at Xewpcrt News, 
_.::ia, and staid with it there, and at Getty's Line, near Ports- 
mouth. Virgini . till the latter part of April, 1S64. when the regiment 
joined the rendezvous at Yorktown, "Virginia He ith tie regi- 

ment as an . ield Hospital, through :_e fighting 

:. the Appomattox and James rivers in May, 1864, and accom- 
pani: ...!=■ there, he received a commission as 



Surgeon of the Second Massachusetts Artillery, with date of 26 May, 
1864, and on 27 June following, he joined the regiment, then on gar- 
rison duty at Xewberne, Xorth Carolina, where he remained till 3 
March, 186-5, fortunately escaping the epidemic yellow fever which 
raged violently in the fall of 1864. At that date, he went with five 
companies of the regiment, in the column under General Schofield, to 
open communications with General Sherman. After the battle at 
Southwest Creek, for the possession of Kinston, the battalion was 
stationed there : and during the month of May, 1865, he had charge 
of the Post Hospital at that place. 

He is not as yet married ; and he may be presumed to be in good 
health and spirits, from the curt style in which he answers a mild 
suggestion of the Secretary that he should have his best jokes ready 
for our dinner to-day : " I look upon your semi-official requisition 
" for my best jokes as irrelevant and impertinent. It implies, first, 
" that I manufacture the article ; second, that I make a poor qTiality."' 

* LAXGDOX ERVIXG. An old friend furnishes me with the 
following sketch of Erving's last years : 

" Immediately on graduation, he entered the Harvard Law School, 
where he took his degree of LL.B. at the end of two years. His 
usual activity characterized him there. Besides his legal studies, 
which he pursued with energy, he found much time to give to his 
favorite athletic sports. To him, more perhaps than to any other 
single person, we owe the growth at Harvard of that love for rowing, 
which has now been brought to all the perfection of a finished art. 
It is true that, before his time, the Harvard students had pulled with 
success in one or two races ; but the boats and the ' stroke ' of those 
days were no more comparable to those of the present time, than the 
Goede Vrouw of Captain Hendrick Hudson to a modern clipper. 
By his constant interest and personal attention, the training of the 
oarsmen was reduced to a system, and the different clubs soon vied 
with each other in the excellence of their boats and in their skilful 
use .of the oar. Erving continued his love of this manly sport to the 
last, and came to all the principal college regatl 

•• Leaving the Law School, Ik- chose Baltimore as the city of his 
future practice, and he there complel itudies in the offic 

Hon. William Schley, the lather of our classmate Samuel Etins 



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Schley, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1857. His superior 
intelligence, and his grace of person, soon made him a popular man, 
and his prospects in his profession were unusually bright. To add to 
his happiness, he had the good fortune to gain the affections of a 
young lady of unusual attractions, Miss Sophie C. Pennington, to 
whom he was married on 18 December, 1860. 

" In the midst of all this success he was struck down by a disease, 
which seems often to assail, as if in malice, the youth, in the pride 
of power, and in the glow of full health. 

" Erving took a bad cold from imprudently going to skate in too thin 
clothing. The cold became worse, fastened on the lungs, and took 
the form of consumption, of which he died on 20 May, 1862, leav- 
ing a daughter born on 27 September, 1861. 

" Of his manly character, his quick and retentive mind, his 
generous affections, and his tall athletic figure, it is not necessary to 
speak in an account written for his classmates, to whom all these 
features were so familiar." T. L. 

ALFRED DOUGLAS EVANS. He, soon after July, 1855, went 
to Dubuque, Iowa, and entered the law office of Messrs. Smith, Mc- 
Kinsley and Poor. His history since that time is unknown to me. 

WILLIAM HENRY EVANS. He studied three years at the 
Newton Theological Seminary, graduating there 30 June, 1858, since 
which time he has resided in Maine. He was ordained as a Baptist 
minister, in China, Maine, on 1 September, 1858, where he continued 
his labors till 1 June, 1860, when he was compelled, owing to ill 
health, to resign and give up all labor. After about nine months, 
during which time he was unable to work, he became, on 1 February, 
1861, pastor of the Baptist Church in Damariscotta, Maine, where he 
has since resided. 

He married, 25 August, 1858, at Cambridgeport, Susan E., daugh- 
ter of John N. and Susan E. Barbour, of Cambridgeport. He has 
three sons, Alfred Henry, born in Cambridgeport 12 September, 1860 ; 
Edwin Barbour, born at Damariscotta 29 July, 1862; and Charles 
Albert, born at Damariscotta 11 April, 1864. 

HENRY SIDNEY EVERETT. After graduating he took a course 
of engineering in the Scientific School, but did not try for a degree. 



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He then went to the Brooklyn Water Works, where he did good ser- 
vice, and remained about two years. He resided in New York City 
until after the beginning of the war, when he went to Europe, and 
made Paris his headquarters most of the time, returning home in the 
fall of 1863. He then formed a copartnership, under the name of 
Ellis & Co., and engaged in the manufacture of shot and shell for the 
Government, in which he is still employed. Their foundry is at New 
Bedford. In January, 1865, holding a commission on Governor 
Andrew's staff, he went to South Carolina, and there served on the 
staff of General Saxton, but was recalled in the same month by his 
father's death, and so saw no active service. He resides now at Win- 
chester, Massachusetts, and is unmarried. His place of business is at 
No. 9 Federal Street, Boston. 

FRANK WILLIAM FISKE. His college course with us was 
suddenly terminated. He was summoned home during the first term 
of the Sophomore year, by the death of his mother ; and, although he 
returned, his studies were much interrupted, and at the end of that 
term he dissolved his connection with the college. " Still," he writes, 
" I have always referred with pride and pleasure to the class of 1855, 
as my class." 

Since he left Cambridge, he has resided in Buffalo, New York, and 
been engaged in the Produce Commission business. On 1 April, 
1861, he was admitted as junior partner of the house of G. S. Hazard 
& Co. He was married 6 June, 1856, to Charlotte M., daughter of 
George S. and Sarah M. Hazard, of Buffalo. He has had three 
children, — Susan Reid, born 1 April, 1857 ; George Hazard, born 
22 October, 1860, and Evelyn Hazard, born 11 November, 1863. 
Little George died on 17 January, 1862. 

To the few facts he gives me, he adds, in a very pleasant, friendly 
way : " They are given, trusting that, however void of interest they 
may be, they may find an humble corner in your report of the class, 
thus gratifying my pride of being once connected with the ' class 
of 1855.'" 

EDWIN AUGUSTUS GIBBENS. He writes that his life, for 
the last ten years, has been quietly passed in the occupation of 
teaching. He spent one year with Mr. Hagar, at Jamaica Plain ; 



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four at the Boston Latin School, and the remaining five at the head of 
the New Church. School, in Waltham. 

He was married in July, 1858, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of 
Hon. Theophilus P. Chandler, of Brookline, and has four children. 
" Fortunately," he writes, " for myself and mankind, I have eschewed 
authorship.'" 

JOHN GREEX. His Senior year was spent chiefly in the 
laboratory of the Scientific School, and the three succeeding years he 
devoted to the study of medicine, with Drs. Morrill and Jeffries 
Wyman and John Ware, at their private medical school. In 
February, 1857, he sailed, in company with Professor Jeffries 
Wyman, and John C. Bancroft, Esq., of the class of 1854, for 
Dutch Guiana, on a sort of scientific exploring expedition, returning 
about the end of the following July. The expedition, although 
partially a failure, owing to the prostration of the whole party by 
malarious disease, was nevertheless the means of some additions to 
some departments of natural history, which Dr. Wyman has since 
made public. He had previously passed the examination in the 
Chemical department of the Lawrence Scientific School, and received 
the diploma of B. S. in July, 1856. In the autumn of 1858 he 
became a physician, having spent the preceding months, from April 
to September, in practice at the State Pauper Hospital on Rainsford 
Island. After spending a few weeks in visiting the medical institu- 
tions of Philadelphia, he sailed for Liverpool, 14 December, 1858, 
remaining abroad nearly two years. The prime object of this journey 
was professional study, which he pursued, in about an equal degree, in 
Great Britain, trance and Germany. In the intervals of study he 
made a pretty complete tour of Europe, excluding Russia, Sweden, 
Norway and Spain, but including Athens and Constantinople. On 1 
April, 1861, he took an office in Boston, at the corner of Brookline 
street and Shawmut Avenue, where he remained a year, when he re- 
moved to Number 909 Washington street, where he still continues the 
practice of medicine. In April, 1862, he entered the service of the 
Western Sanitary Commission, as a volunteer medical officer, spending 
three months in such work as came first to hand. After the battle of 
Antietam, he went to Maryland, and for some weeks had charge of a 
hospital at Frederick. Since November, 1863, he has been connected 



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with the central office of the Boston Dispensary, first as physician, 
and more recently as surgeon. He is a member of several medical 
societies, among which are the Massachusetts and the Suffolk District 
Medical Societies, the American Medical Association, the Boston 
Society for Medical Observation, and has been a member of the Bos- 
ton Society of Natural History. As regards authorship, he says he 
has written only a few professional papers. He is still unmarried. 

CHARLES AUGUSTUS GREGORY. He resided one year in 
Cambridge after graduating, studying at the Law School ; he then 
spent six months studying law, in the office of Hon. E. R. Hoar 
and Horace Gray, Esq., in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
Bar, about the month of April, 1857. He then went to Chicago, 
Illinois, to reside, and to practise law. He entered the office of Messrs. 
Arnold, Larned and Lay, and was soon after admitted to the bar in 
Illinois. He formed a copartnership with Messrs. Arnold and Lay, 
which was known as the firm of Arnold, Lay and Gregory ; subse- 
quently the firm became Arnold and Gregory ; and in 1861 he was 
practising law alone, and so continued until this summer, when he 
resumed his partnership with Hon. Isaac N. Arnold. 

He thus facetiously alludes to one of his civil honors : " Shall I 
tell you of my commission as Notary Public, from the lamented Gov- 
ernor Bissell, of Illinois, because of his reposing especial confidence 
and trust in me ! Shall I narrate how, no sooner had Governor Yates 
ascended the Gubernatorial chair, than he, too, seemed struck with 
my eminent qualifications for the office of Notary Public, and straight- 
way sent me a commission. This office of profit, honor, and trust, I 
glory in, as not having been obtained by popular election, secured by 
intrigue, but as having come to me from him who represents the 
dignity of the state, ex mero motu^ 

He was married in Chicago, on 4 December, 1861, to Julia A., 
daughter of C. W. and Maria Booth, of New York. " In inquiring 
for the names and birthdays of my children," he writes, " you are a 
little premature. I have picked out their names long since, but I 
cannot find their birthdays in any almanac which I possess ! As I 
have been too modest to publish anything over my own' name, you 
will excuse my answering your inquiries as to authorship. My 
military history and adventures arc summed up in the following 



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achievement : — When Stephen A. Douglas (who was a great man in 
some respects, but not to be revered) was buried with military honors, 
about the time, you remember, that the rebellion broke out, I 
marched, with musket on shoulder, in the goodly company of a large 
number of friends, to his grave, and back to the city. I thus showed 
that while I honored him for his last strong words of patriotism, I 
was willing to attend him on his funeral. This feeling, I think, has 
been justified by the event, — the country has got along very well 
without him." 

Gregory is doing exceedingly well in his profession, and cannot slip 
away to be with us this year. This fact he much regrets, but it has 
emboldened me to enliven these pages with extracts from his letters 
which you might have lost, if I had had the fear of his calling me to 
account for so doing, before the gentle influence of time had soothed 
his feelings. 

JOSEPH GUTMAN. He writes, " On leaving fair Harvard, I 
entered with avidity upon the study of the law, subsisting precari- 
ously by ad interim spoliations upon the press ; doing blood-and-thun- 
der for the New York Atlas, sentiment for the New York Mercury, city 
articles for the New York Times, and general trash for Putnam's, 
slighty diversified by incursions upon the Comics, the Magazines, and 
the Metropolitan theatres, with squibs, bad rhyme, and worse 
dramatic effusions." He " pulled vigorously at the mammas of 
Themis," he writes, until he was admitted to the bar on 3 October, 
1856, and in November of that year started for the West. He prac- 
tised for two months in Wisconsin, thence proceeded to Kansas, 
thence back to New York, and there settled down to legal work. On 
2 January, 1858, he married Miss Lida C. Pittman of Long Island. 
He has had two sons, " a small Joseph Gutman," who was born 17 
October, 1858, and Frank J. Gutman, who was born 3 February, 
1860, and died 17 February, 1860. 

In May, 1861, he entered the 51st Regiment, New York Volunteers, 
as First Lieutenant. In March, 1862, he returned to the law, in 
which he has continued until the present time. 

GEORGE HENRY HAMPSON. In August, 1855, he went to 
Ohio, and in September of the same year, was appointed Superin- 
tendent of the Union Schools of Marion, in that State, which position 



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he retained for a year. He then removed to Tiffin, Ohio, and read 
law for a few months. In January, 1857, he was appointed an 
assistant teacher in the Union Schools of Columbus. In September, 
1857, he was appointed Principal of one of the Grammar Schools, 
which office he retained until 1 November, 1864, at which time he 
resigned it in order to accept the place of book-keeper in the stove 
and tin store of Stuart and Emery, where he is now employed. He 
married on 24 December, 1859, Catharine Isabella, daughter of 
Alexander E. and Hannah Glenn, of Columbus. He has had two 
sons, — George Glenn, who was born 19 April, 1861, and died on 1 
July, 1861 ; and Thomas Glenn, born on 12 April, 1862. 

He writes : "I regret very much that I cannot make arrangements 
to be present at the meeting." 

JOSEPH HAYES. In 1855 he went to Wisconsin, where, for 
some time, he was in a banking house. He afterwards was engaged 
in engineering in Iowa and Wisconsin, and finally came to Boston 
about the fall of 1859, where he continued in business as a Real 
Estate Broker until the summer of 1861. In July, 1861, he was 
commissioned as Major of the 18th Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, and was at first stationed near Washington. He has served 
with the Army of the Potomac from the time of its formation until 
now, and he is still in the service. He was made successively Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel and Colonel of his regiment, and then, for gallantry, 
Brigadier- General of Volunteers, in the summer of 1864. He was 
wounded severely in the head, at the battle of the Wilderness, from 
which wound, however, he has recovered. He was taken prisoner in 
August, 1864, while commanding a brigade of Regulars in the Fifth 
Corps, and was kept prisoner until February, 1865. He, while 
prisoner, was appointed and acted as our commissioner of supplies 
for the prisoners, and fulfilled admirably this great trust. He is now 
on duty near Washington. He is not married. 

He has distinguished himself greatly during the war, and has 
shown singular military ability, for which he has been very highly 
praised. The fact that he, a volunteer, was detailed to command a 
Regular brigade, is, perhaps, a handsomer compliment than any 
which mere words could convey. He was recommended for promo- 
tion as early as the Chancellorsville campaign, and the history of the 



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Army of the Potomac gives the list of his battles. Very few volun- 
teer officers have the high reputation which he has among the trained, 
professional soldiers of the United States Army. I had hoped to 
give something more definite about one who has done so much credit 
to our Class. On 17 June, he wrote me. " I have received your letter 
to-day. It will afford me infinite pleasure to attend the class dinner 
this year, and I shall try to be present. I will try to send you the 
memoranda." But the "memoranda" have not arrived in time for 
use, and therefore you have only a barren account of him. 

JOSEPH CONVERSE HEYWOOD. He has resided in New 

York City for the last ten years, dming which time he has been 
engaged in the practice of law, having been admitted to the Bar in 
that city, 13 May, 1858. His only journev in foreign countries is 
comprised in a tour through the Confederate States of America, made 
by leaving Washington 20 January, 1861, passing via Fredericksburg, 
Richmond, Petersburg, and Wilmington, to Charleston, South Caro- 
lina ; thence to Savannah, Georgia ; thence to Fernandina, Jackson- 
ville, and Picolata to St. Augustine ; thence to Pilotta ; thence, by 
way of Jacksonville, Baldwin, and Alligator to Tallahassee : thence 
to St. Marks, in Florida: thence by steamer to Xew Orleans, stop- 
ping at Apalachicola and Pensacola ; thence up the Mississippi River 
to Hard Times, where he landed and passed several days on the shores 
of Lake St. Joseph: thence to Vicksburg ; thence to Jackson, Mis- 
sissippi : thence to Columbus and Cairo, where he again found the 
United States Flag : thence to St. Louis : thence, by way of Wheel- 
ing, to Baltimore and Washington : and thence to Xew York, where 
he arrived just one month and one day before the first shot was fired 
at Fort Sumter. In May, 1862, he published, in aid of a charitable 
operatic performance in Xew York City, a libretto, with a title page as 
follows : ' " II Xano Italiano ; A most Musical, most Melancholy, most 
lamentably Laughable, very fashionably Unintelligible, Lyric Tragedy, 
in Five Acts, by II Serior Maestro Infelici Trovatore. Xew York, 
1862. William L. Jones, Publisher." In October of the same year, 
he published a book with title page as follows : " Salome, The 
Daughter of Herodias ; A Dramatic Poem. Xew York, 1862. Put- 
nams." He received the degrees of A. B., 1855 ; LL. B., 1857 ; A. 
M., 1858. He has never married. His address is Xo. 46, Exchange 
Place, Xew York City. 



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HENRY LEE HIGGINSON. He went into the counting room of 
Messrs, Samuel and Edward Austin, some months before the class 
graduated, and remained there about nineteen months. On 5 Novem- 
ber, 1856, he sailed for Europe in company with several friends, and 
travelled for a year in England, France, Italy and Germany. He lived 
in Vienna, somewhat more than two years, where he studied music ; 
travelled again for a short time, and returned home, reaching Boston, 
on 15 November, 1860. 

Immediately at the breaking out of the war, he sought a place in 
the Volunteer Army. He helped Colonel James Savage, of the class 
of 1854, recruit Company D, 2d Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 
which was the first three years regiment accepted by the President, 
and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the same company, about 
13 May, 1861, and was promoted to a First Lieutenancy about 8 July, 
when the regiment marched. The regiment reported to General 
Patterson at Martinsburg, Virginia, and remained with that army in 
the Shenandoah Valley. On 5 November, 1861, he was commissioned 
Captain in the 1st Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry, and was ordered 
to Readville. The regiment was sent to Maryland, and then to South 
Carolina, and from that state to Virginia, just as General McClellan's 
army returned from the Peninsula in August, 1861. From that date 
the regiment remained with the Army of the Potomac. He was com- 
missioned Major in his regiment, 26 March, 1862. On 17 June, 1863, 
he was wounded in the cavalry fight at Aldie, Virginia, and sent home. 
He was married to Ida, daughter of Professor Louis Agassiz, at Cam- 
bridge, on 5 December, 1863, and remained in Cambridge all the 
winter and spring, on account of illness and physical disability. Early 
in July, 1864, and as soon as he was permitted by the surgeons, he 
sought and obtained a position as aid, on General Barlow's staff, but 
was very soon forced to resign, from inability to bear active service. 
He was discharged on 9 August, 1864, " and I am very sorry" he writes, 
" that it was necessary ; for it had always been my wish and intention 
" to stay in the army to the end of the war in any case." He sought 
employment, during the fall and winter, both in and out of the army, 
but found no position in military service which lie was then able to 
fill. He was sent in January, 1865, to Olive, Ohio, as agent of an 
oil company, lie still remains there. His post-office address is 
" Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio," as Olive is not a postal town. 



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He writes, " I have no children, have written no books, and have 
received no degrees ;" and says, " of course, I shall be at the dinner, 

d. vr 

CHARLES CUSHIXG HOBBS. He resided in Boston from the 
autumn of 1859, to March, 1864, and the remainder of the time since 
1855, with the exception of a few months at Medford, his home has 
been at South Berwick, Maine. For a portion of the year 1856, he 
was engaged as a teacher, in the South Berwick Academy, in connec- 
tion with Dr. Joseph B. Montague Gray, formerly of Cambridge. Dr. 
Gray was a graduate of Oxford, England, and a fine classical scholar, 
and while at South Berwick, died of fever : and soon after his death his 
wife returned to Europe. Hobbs was admitted to the Suffolk Bar, on 
23 May, 1857, since which time, he has been engaged in the practice 
of his profession. He is unmarried, and now lives in South Berwick, 
" in," as he says, " maiden meditation ; "' though perhaps I ought to 
give the whole of his quotation as he does himself, and add " fancy 
free." 

* GEORGE FOSTER HODGES. In January, 1856, he com- 
menced teaching, as an assistant, in the school of Mr. Stephen D. 
AY eld, of Jamaica Plain. This position he held for a short time only, 
as he sailed for Cuba during the next October. He stayed awhile at 
Havana, and then went into the interior as tutor in a private family. 
In June, 185 7, he returned home, not being pleased with Cuban 
habits and customs. On 14 September, 1857, he entered the office of 
Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, where he remained until he went 
to the Harvard Law School, where he became a member of the Middle 
Class in the first term of 1858-59. He finished the course, and 
received the degree of LL. B., and then for a while returned to Mr. 
Chandler's office. For the greater part, however, of the time until 
1861, he resided in Cambridge, where he was Librarian of the Law 
School, and worked on the law books of Professor Parsons. He 
made the Index to Parsons' "Maritime Law," and had a very 
important share in the labor of preparing Parsons' " Notes and 
Bills," rendering most valuable service in the composition of that 
work. He was exhaustive in his research, and, perhaps, unsurpassed 
in the school for thorough work. On 20 April, 1861. he enlisted as a 



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private in the *' Charlestown City Guards," Capt. Boyd, a company 
belonging to the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Militia, commanded by 
Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence, and the next morning left Boston for 
Washington. He cheerfully endured the hardships of a private dur- 
ing the transportation and marches of his regiment on their way to 
the capital. On 8 May, he was commissioned Regimental Paymaster, 
with the rank of First Lieutenant, which office was abolished in the 
service after the return of the three months' men. He entered Alex- 
andria, Virginia, with the Fifth, at the time when Colonel Ellsworth 
was killed. After the battle of Bull Run, he carried Colonel Law- 
rence, who had been wounded, from the field to Centreville, having on 
the way several narrow escapes from the rebel cavalry. On 30 July, 
1861, he returned to Boston with his regiment ; but, being determined 
" to see the £hing through," as he expressed it, he obtained a commis- 
sion on 20 August, 1861, as Adjutant of the 18th Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers. 

On 31 January, 1862, at one o'clock in the morning, he died, at 
Hall's Hill, near Alexandria, Virginia, of a typhoid fever, contracted 
in the discharge of his duty. He was recovering from a first attack, 
when a relapse came on and terminated fatally. Of him, his brother 
writes : " He was so loath to speak of what he himself did at the 
war, that we of the family, know but little of his deeds, and that 
little, was mostly learned from his comrades. By them he was 
always spoken of with love and respect." 

I was, myself, much in company with Hodges during his residence 
at the Law School at the time while I was officially connected with 
the college. Our old acquaintance ripened into warm friendship. 
His extreme youth, when we were all together, prevented his being 
then well known as the vigorous, noble-hearted man he in reality was, 
both in body and mind. He would have risen to eminence in the 
law ; for his industry, patience, and clear perception of logical 
relations I have seldom known equalled. His death was to me a 
personal loss deeply felt. He was the more valued and appreciated, 
on some accounts, perhaps, because in my own profession ; but his 
personal qualities won very much upon all, who, in his maturity, had 
the opportunity of knowing him. To them he was loyal to the last 
degree. If ever man was entitled to be called a faithful friend, 

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Hodges was that man. How truly he deserved the name, the follow- 
ing letter from Lawrence shows : — 

"In I860," writes Colonel Lawrence, "before war was generally 
expected, General Butler, then Brigadier- General of the Third 
Brigade of our Militia, sent for Colonel Jones and myself, — his 
two Colonels, — to meet him at Youngs Hotel in Boston. When 
we met, he privately told us that he wanted us to have our regiments 
in condition to come out at very short notice. Colonel Jones then 
said, " General, I am now out of business. If you really think war 
is coming out of this, I won't go into business again now, but will 
get ready for the war." After we separated, I went quietly to work 
in drilling my regiment without expressing my motives. I used to 
hire the Fitchburg Depot Hall, in Boston, and have battallion drills 
there with my regiment, all through the winter, in the *evenings. I 
also went to drill clubs, and instructors, that I might myself learn ; 
and there I met Hodges. We drilled together, shoulder to shoulder, 
throughout the winter. 

" When my regiment was called out, and we were about to start for 
Washington, I met Hodges on Court Street. Says he, " Colonel, I 
" want to go with you. Have you a place for one man more in your 
"regiment ?" I replied, " Hodges, are you willing to go as a private ?" 
" Yes," said he, " I mean to go anyhow, for I cant stay at home in 
this war." So we went down to Faneuil Hall, and I put him into 
the Charlestown City Guards as a private, and so he went to Wash- 
ington. I there detailed him to write for me at headquarters, and 
procured his appointment as Paymaster of the Regiment. W T hile he 
served in the ranks, and afterwards, I never knew a more energetic, 
active, attentive, devoted soldier. He always went to drill, though 
his duty did not require it of him ; but he was eager to learn, and 
became very thorough in his knowledge of tactics, through his desire 
to fit himself to become an Adjutant. He often rode with me, and 
was very fearless. When we went on the Bull Run campaign, my 
regiment, the oth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, had the advance 
of Heintzelman's column ; and, as I went at the head of the regiment 
through the thick woods, often in advance of the line of skirmishers, 
Hodges was always with me. When we came under fire, Hodges 
was left with the wagons, where it was proper for him to stay. But 
at a time when the fire was very heavy, whom should I see but Hodges, 



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quietly walking up through it all. " Hodges," I exclaimed, " are 
you here ? " " Yes," he replied very quietly, " I thought I could be 
of some help to you." He then stayed with me, acting as Aide, to 
carry orders through the regiment, as the noise made it impossible 
for my voice to be heard. 

" Just at the close of the battle, I was wounded, while near the right 
of the regiment. Hodges came up and ordered the men to carry me 
to the rear. He had me put into an ambulance, which is the last 
thing I remember then, for I became insensible. Four or five men, I 
believe, accompanied the ambulance a short distance. In the confusion 
of the general retreat, the others, supposing me almost dead, and 
that it was impossible for me to survive, all left me ; but not so 
Hodges. He took me out of the ambulance, which the driver had 
left, and, bearing me over a fence into a wood, supported me against 
a tree. He told me that all had gone, and I should probably be soon 
taken a prisoner, but that he would stay with me and be taken too. 
I told him to go, as it was bad enough for one to be taken prisoner. 
" No," said he, " I shall stay, for it is not right to leave you, our 
Colonel, helpless here alone ; and besides, I want you to understand I 
will not desert a classmate." And so he stayed until assistance came. 
It was a tall soldier, a man from Maine, I think, whose name I have 
never been able to ascertain. Seeing us, he stepped. " He is an 
officer, isn't he?" "Yes." "And wounded too?" "Yes, and 
will be taken prisoner soon." " Who is he ? " " Colonel of the 
5th Massachusetts." And then, why I never knew, he exclaimed, 
" By G — d, if he is the Colonel of the 5th Massachusetts, he shall 
be saved." And so, between them both, as they were stalwart men, 
they helped me a long distance through the woods, and got me at last 
safely to Centreville ; whence, after the troops departed, Hodges, with 
Lieutenant Pattee, took me to Alexandria, and thence to Washington. 

" By Hodges' means, I escaped captivity at that time, and probably 
death. He was a noble fellow, and none could wish a better friend." 

JAMES KENDALL HOSMER. After graduating, he studied 
Theology at the Divinity School in Cambridge. For a time during 
his course he was in the West, but returned to the School and graduated, 
He was soon after ordained at Deerfield, Massachusetts, in September, 
18G0. He is a member of the School Committee, having been elected 



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in March, 1861, to serve three years, and again in March, 1864, for the 
same length of time. He has written the following reviews : "The 
Assyrian Empire," published in the North American Review, January, 
1860; "Analogues of Satan," published in the Christian Examiner, 
July, 1861 ; and " Three Ancient Systems of Intuitive Morals," Ibid. 
September, 1862. He has also written "The Color Guard," published 
in January, 1864; and "The Thinking Bayonet," published in April, 
1865. He was* married at Deerfleld, 15 October, 1863, to Eliza A., 
daughter of Newell, and Huldah Cutter. He served as corporal in 
the 52d "Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, from the fall of 1862, 
to the fall of 1863, with General Banks in Louisiana. He was at the 
siege of Port Hudson, and constantly under fire, as he worked in the 
trenches. 

" Corporal Hosmer of the Color Guard" was a clergyman who 
would not urge his parishioners to enlist by his precepts only, but 
himself set the example by cheerfully going through a year's service 
in the ranks ; and his name is widely known for the good influence 
he exerted throughout the regiment, and even more widely. 

His two books are the best books yet written, which show the 
interior life of a great army, during this war. They have won him 
much literary reputation, and his classmates will hear his familiar 
voice, and see his face before them on every page as they read. They 
are eminently characteristic of the author, and written in his very 
simple, pleasant way. In a manner quite different from our other 
distinguished classmates, he has as fully as the best of them done his 
whole duty to his country in the great war. " Corporal Hosmer" has 
also more warlike fame than the average of the volunteer Brigadiers, 
and is one of our eminent military men, in whom the class may well 
take pride ; a scholar and clergyman and gentleman, who voluntarily, 
for the sake of example, and to satisfy his own sense of duty, endured 
for a year the hardships of life in the ranks; tenfold harder to one 
like him, coming from a scholastic and quiet life, and a refined home. 

SAMUEL JOHNSTON. He has lived in Chicago, a lordly owner 
of the soil and dealing in the same, almost ever since graduation ; and 
doubtless is as cheerful and prosperous as ever we knew him. He 
wrote with speed -to say it would be a great disappointment to him 
if he could not be present with us this year, which disappointment, 



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however, he hopes to avoid; and he also added, *' the questions 
I will fill out and send you." 

Since they have not as yet arrived, he probably intends first to make 
a public, viva voce confession at the dinner, before putting it on record 
with me. 

LEONARD AUGUSTUS JONES. Directly after graduating, he 
accepted the place of teacher in the High School at St. Louis, Mis- 
souri, where he remained till the summer of 1856, when, after declin- 
ing an appointment as tutor in Washington University, he returned to 
Massachusetts, and entered the Harvard Law School at the beginning 
of the fall term of 1856. After remaining in the school one year, he 
entered the law office of C. W*. Loring, Esq., in Boston, where he 
pursued his legal studies till the beginning of the spring term of the 
Law School in 1858, when he returned to Cambridge, and at Com- 
mencement in that year received the degree of LL.B. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk Bar on 1 February, 1858, and in the following 
September entered upon the practice of his profession in Boston, 
where he has since remained, and now has his office at No. 4 Court 
Street. 

He has contributed a number of articles to different Reviews and 
Magazines, among which are the following : — " The Power of Legis- 
latures over Private Property," published in the Monthly Law Reporter, 
for December, 1858 ; " Instinct," published in the Atlantic Monthly 
for May, 1860 ; " The Influence of Political Economy, on Legislation," 
published in the North American Review, for July, 1860, and "The 
Immortality of the Brute World," published in the Christian Examiner, 
for March, 1863. He is unmarried. 

He writes, " There is nothing brilliant or worthy of record in my 
" military history, unless it be upon the familiar legal maxim, that Qui 
"facitper alium, facit per se. Finding myself enrolled for the army, 
" in the first draft, which was made in the summer of 1863, I procured 
" a substitute, who I believe has served faithfully." By the latest intel- 
ligence, however, Jones' kt agent" appears very anxious to give up his 
" agency" and writes to his principal for legal advice upon the ques- 
tion, whether as he enlisted"' for (luce years or the war," and the war 
is over now, his principal does not think he ought to be discharged ; 
and if so, how ; and when ; and cannot his principal get him out ? 



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Perhaps therefore Jones is mistaken in supposing his agent is as zealous 
in military service as he himself would be, and is perchance rash in 
assuming the " agent's " military history as his own. 

SAMUEL CROCKER LAWRENCE. He passed the months of 
January, February and March, 1856, in Florida, after which he went 
to Chicago, Illinois, where he commenced the banking business, with 
Mr. Liberty Bigelow, under the name of Bigelow and Lawrence, and 
continued in the same business until the latter part of March, 1858, 
when they sold out their bank, at a handsome profit. 

On 1 April, 1858, he engaged in the distilling business, at Medford, 
Massachusetts, with his father and brother, and continued with them 
three years, after which for four years, he conducted the business 
with his father. He is, at present, out of active business on his owe 
account. 

He was commissioned as Third Lieutenant in the Massachusetts 
Volunteer Militia, on 27 March, 1855, while still a Senior, and helc 
various commissions in the State Militia service until April, 1861 
at which time he was Colonel of the 5th Regiment Massachusett 
Volunteer Militia, and as such, he was ordered to Washington, wit 
his regiment, on 19 April, 1861. He served three months wii 
distinction, and took part in the Bull Run campaign. He wa 
wounded at the battle of Bull Run, on 21 July, 1861. On 9 Jun° 
1862, he was commissioned as Brigadier- General of the Massachu 
setts Volunteer Militia, which commission he held until 20 August, 
1864. 

He married on 28 April, 1859, Carrie R. daughter of Rev. William 
and Rebecca Badger, of Wilton, Maine. 

The following article which explains itself, appeared in the Boston 
Daily Advertiser of 31 August, 1861. 

" A Swoed fob. Col. Lawrence. — The classmates of Col. Samuel 
C. Lawrence, 5th regiment M. V. M., wishing to attest their appre- 
ciation of his gallantry, procured a sword and belt, which they gave 
him at the Parker House on Saturday. Col. Lawrence graduated at 
Cambridge in the Class of 1855, which was one of the very first to be 
represented at the seat of war, and which has at least ten or twelve 
members in the service of the country. The conduct of the Massa- 
chusetts Fifth at Bull Run has reflected the highest honor upon the 



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State, and the class of 1855 feel a just pride in the valor of their 
gallant Colonel. The following resolutions, which were unanimously- 
adopted at the meeting on Saturday, show that their other classmates 
in arms are affectionately remembered : 

" Whereas, a number of our classmates, not making arms a pro- 
fession, have left their ordinary avocations to defend the laws and 
liberties of the Republic, 

"I. Resolved, That their promptness and patriotism, while so hon- 
orable to themselves, are regarded with peculiar pride and satisfaction 
by their classmates. 

" II. Resolved, That while we give our thanks to all for their servi- 
ces, our attention has been specially drawn to the honorable course 
of our classmate, Col. Lawrence, to his ability, watchful care, and 
'untiring zeal, in camp, for the improvement and welfare of his men, 
is well as for his unremitting ardor, prudence, and gallantry on the 
Weld of battle. And that, in token of our appreciation of the service 
'.e has done his country, and the honor he has conferred upon us as a 
lass, we tender him the accompanying sword. 

" After the passage of the resolutions, Mr. Edwin Morton, chair- 
an of the committee of resolutions, addressed Col. Lawrence as 
'Hows : 

*" Col. Lawrence, In accordance with the resolutions just passed, the 
Rasing duty falls to me to beg you to accept, on behalf of the class 
*f '55, this token of our high esteem. That it was made in the city 
<flr Brotherly Love, renders it, perhaps, none the less an appropriate 
gift between classmates ; nor even an unfitting tribute from a Quaker 
city to Massachusetts, who seeks peace only, under the sword. 

" We saw you, Col. Lawrence, in April, rushing to defend your 
country, as one might fly to the rescue of a mother ; we have seen 
your anxious toil in the camp, and your care for your men there — as 
well as saving them from needless destruction in the field — which has 
won their undying gratitude, and made their every allusion to their 
commander a eulogy ; — we have seen you, for successive days the 
very van of an advancing army, giving Massachusetts the proud honor 
of leading the way to the ' sacred soil ' to restore sacred rights ; we 
have seen your little band, our representative Bay State, lying long 
and patient under shot and shell, the special mark of a well-served 
battery ; we have seen you volunteering your command, and driving 



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the rebel centre from hill to hill ; we have seen you impatient that it 
should be given to others, and not you, to charge that centre's battery, 
believing that your sturdy, long-disciplined regiment, in place of the 
brave firemen whom other and diverse duties had deprived of battal- 
ion drill, had decided the day ; we have seen your men of Middlesex 
stand firm, as with the strength of their own monuments, when even 
the Zouaves broke through them in wild flight, and a flying battery 
in wilder disorder ; we have seen their exultation when told that you 
would know no such order as retreat, and so charging with half their 
companies into terrific fire ; and, finally, we have seen you, — long fight- 
ing after the retreat, and unwilling to give the order to retire, — struck 
down at last, carried from the field, and spared that necessity by the 
friendly ball of a foe. 

" But it is not this, Sir, and more than this, which gathers us around 
you to-day. Within a two days' journey, the guns of Barbarism 
actually menace the Republic, and there's little time for reminiscence. 

" The smoke of battle almost chokes the voice of welcome and 
gratulation. 

" We but meet here, as it were, on the field ; — to recognize each 
other, to renew hope, to take courage and counsel, to say a hasty fare- 
well, and pass on to different stations in the conflict. 

" As young Americans, who have reaped the blessings of Free 
Government, we do not forget that we are rightly expected to pledge 
all we have and are, to its defence, handing it down to posterity, free 
from stain, and pure from all contamination. 

"Nor do we forget that the earnest young men of other lands, 
beyond the sea, beyond the Archipelago, 

" Beyond Danubius and the Tauric pool 
And farthest Indian isle Taprobane," 

are looking anxiously to us to-day; putting the question, Freedom or 
Feudalism — Forward or Backward — under which king, Bezonian ? 
and awaiting the answer on every western gale. 

" To many may be given the good fortune of replying through the 
dust of battle ; to some even the glory of answering with their lives. 

" Long it may be perhaps, ere all come together again. And while 
rallying here a moment, to renew old associations ; to re-pledge 
ourselves to the high aims with which Alma Mater sent us forth, and 
to remember that her own blood has baptized our institutions, we do 



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not wish so much to thank you, Sir, for fighting our fight, as to honor 
you for having, in a trial hour, done your whole duty, thoroughly, 
faithfully, and well." 

" Col. Lawrence responded in modest but fitting terms, in the course 
of which he bore testimony to the cordiality with which classmates 
greet one another on meeting in the field, and paid tribute to the 
patriotism of those who, abandoning their professions at the outset of 
their career, had buckled on their armor for the war. 

" The sword given to the Colonel is a handsome weapon of the 
regulation pattern for field officers, and bears the inscription : — 
Col. S. C. Lawrence, 
5th Reg't. M. V. M. : 
From his classmates. 
"On the reverse : 

Bull Run, July 29, 1861. 
" Inside of the guard is the motto : — 

"....famam extendere factis, 
" Hoc virtutis opus." 
A very interesting letter from Lawrence is printed in the account of 
Hodges, of whom it mostly speaks. 

WILLIAM PITT PREBLE LONGFELLOW. After graduating, 
he went to live with his mother and family, at Louisville, Kentucky, 
where he passed nearly a year, returning however in June, 1856, to 
Portland, Maine. In September of the same year, having made an 
engagement as private tutor for a young gentleman in Boston, he came 
to that city, where he remained till September, 1857, when he entered 
the Engineering Department of the Lawrence Scientific School, one term 
in advance. At the end of the first term, he was appointed by Professor 
Eustis, one of his assistant teachers, in charge of the classes in Ana- 
lytical Geometry and Surveying. He took his degree of B.S. summa 
cum laude, at the first examination of his class in January, 1859, but 
continued in the school till the close of the Academic year 1858-59. 
At the beginning of this year he was appointed a Proctor in College, 
and was also engaged in private teaching and literary labor. In the 
fall of 1859, he gave up his connection with the University, and entered 
the office of E. C. Cabot, Esq., architect, in Boston. In April, I860, 
he left Mr. Cabot and opened an office in Boston as architect, since 
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which time, he has practised his profession in that place, and since 1 
May, 1863, he has had associated with him, as partner, "William Morris 
Dorr, Esq., of Boston. In April, 1862, he moved to Brookline, where 
he made a home for his mother and family till October, 1864, when he 
again removed to Boston. "What time he can spare from his profes- 
sional work, has been devoted to teaching, mostly of private pupils. 
In the fall of 1863, he became connected with the Xew Church School 
in Waltham, of which Gibbens was principal, as teacher of German, 
Music and Drawing. This connection with the school, has been main- 
tained to the present time. He is unmarried, and has his office in 
Studio Building, at the corner of Bromneld and Tremont Streets, 
Boston. 

BEXJAMIX SMITH LYMAN. For the first six months aftgj 
leaving Cambridge, his home was with his parents in Xorthampton, 
Massachusetts. During this time, he was endeavoring to overcome a 
tendency of blood to the head, which made it imprudent for him to 
undertake any sedentary occupation. He made several pedestrian 
excursions through the western part of the State, and spent most of 
his time in out-of-door exercise. In January, 1856, his health being 
sufficiently re-established, he became principal of the Deerfield Acad- 
emy, in Massachusetts, remaining there about three months. At this 
time, he had some prospect of starting in mercantile business, and 
with this view, paid a visit to an uncle at Xewburg, on the Hudson, 
who was engaged in the China trade. At the end of this visit, in 
June 1856, as the opportunity for going into business did not, after 
all, present itself, he went to Philadelphia to seek work with Mr. J. 
P. Lesley, the geologist, who was engaged at that time in a topo- 
graphical and geological survey of Broad Top Mountain, Pennsylvania. 
Professor Lesley was able to offer him no work but that of chain- 
carrying, and in rainy weather, corresponding office-work, which 
offer he accepted, and set out with him in two days for Broad Top. 
Here he remained until September, when, as the work was finished, 
he returned to Philadelphia to seek some occupation there. In about a 
week, he became the assistant teacher of Mr. Charles Short, in his clas- 
sical school for boys, and stayed with him until the following April. In 
the preceding December, he made an excursion to western Connecticut 
and Massachusetts, to visit some iron works there for Mr. Lesley, who 



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was collecting statistics of the iron manufacture, as secretary of the 
American Iron Association. In April, 1857, his health having suf- 
fered severely from the confinement of teaching, he gave up that 
occupation, and until December, 1857, travelled almost constantly 
to collect iron statistics for Mr. Lesley. He travelled through 
South-eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Virginia Valley, North- 
western Virginia, Central Pennsylvania, Northeastern New Jersey, 
Delaware, Eastern Virginia, Southwestern Virginia, Eastern Ten- 
nessee, Western North Carolina, Northern Georgia, and Alabama. 
In the summer of 1857, he re-visited Broad Top, and spent a por- 
tion of two nights in a coal mine there, doing his first surveying. 

The winter of 1857-58 he spent in Philadelphia, doing a little 
teaching. In the spring he made his first topographical survey, on an 
estate, at the top of the Alleghany Mountains in Pennsylvania. In 
May, 1858, he became assistant geologist of the Iowa State Geological 
Survey, and now finally gave up all idea of becoming a merchant. 
At the end of this year, the appropriation for the survey being 
exhausted, active operations were suspended, and he went to Concord, 
Massachusetts, where he remained three months as an assistant in 
the school of our classmate Sanborn. He then went to Philadelphia, 
and shortly found geological employment, as Mr. Lesley's assistant, in 
a topographical geological survey of a tract of many thousand acres of 
land, in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Early in September, 
1859, he decided, rather suddenly, to go to Europe to study geology 
and mining ; and, accordingly, sailed from New York 1 7 September, 
1859, for Havre. He established himself permanently at Paris in the 
student quarters ; and, through the liberality of the French Govern- 
ment in regard to its professional schools, easily obtained admission 
to the Imperial School of Mines, and attended its lectures and exer- 
cises for two years. In the summer vacation of 1860, he spent several 
weeks in a journey, most of the time on foot, through France and 
across the Pyrenees, into the edgr- of Spain. The object of the journey 
was to see the mines and furnaces, but especially the geology of the 
country. In the spring of 1860 he accompanied many students, 
in a geological excursion of a week, to the north of 
and again, in the spring of 1861, he went on a similar ezcui 
to the east of France. In June 1861, he finally 1 . and 

went through Switzerland to Germany, and thence to Freiburg 



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in Saxony, where he became a student in the Mining Academy, 
and followed a practical course in Metallurgy and Mining, and after 
that, six or seven courses of lectures, until the end of July, 1862. 
He visited several coal mines in Saxony and Bohemia ; and, in 
August, 1862, travelled alone and on foot through the Mansfeld and 
the Hartz, returning to New York by steamer from Bremen, in 
September, 1862. In November, he went to Llewellyn, Pennsylvania, 
where he made a topographical geological survey of some coal lands 
there. In January, 1863, he established himself permanently in 
Philadelphia, and opened an office as Mining Engineer. In May, he 
went to Little Glace Bay, Cape Breton, and remained in that vicinity 
about seven months, engaged in surveying. In January, 1864, he 
sailed for California on professional business ; there he visited various 
mines, and on 21 March, 1864, set out for Philadelphia by the over- 
land route, arriving there 5 May, 1864. On 23 May, he again started 
for Cape Breton, where he remained till the following January, 
engaged in surveying coal lands, when he returned to Philadelphia, 
where he has since resided, occupying an office and lodgings at No. 
135 South Fifth Street. He is the author of a good part of a 
pamphlet entitled " Bourinot Coal Claims and Lands, Cape Breton, 
New York, 1865." He has received the degree of A.B., and is a 
member of the " Societe Geologique, de France." He is unmarried. 

CHARLES FREDERICK LYMAN. After leaving College he 
stayed at home, until the spring of 1857, when he visited the 
Middle and Western States. In October, 1857, he sailed for Europe, 
and remained there until December, 1861, travelling in England, 
France, Italy, Switzerland and Greece. Since his return to this 
country, he has lived in Boston and Newport. 

THEODORE LYMAN. After graduating, he began to study 
Natural History, under Professor Agassiz, in the Lawrence Scientific 
School, and in 1858 took his degree as Bachelor of Science summa 
cum laude in Zoology and Geology. He continued to interest him- 
self in Natural History till March, 1861, when he went to Europe 
with his wife, and there travelled for two years. He visited the prin- 
cipal museums of Natural History, and completed the first number of 
the illustrated catalogues for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 



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Cambridge. In the middle of June, 1863, he returned to this country, 
and in August, 1863, received from the Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts a commission of Lieutenant Colonel, and, by special permission 
from the Secretary of War, was appointed a Volunteer Aide-de-camp 
on the Staff of Major General Meade, commanding the Army of the 
Potomac, where he continued, being present at all the engagements of 
that army, including the movements on Centreville and Mine Run, in 
1863, and the great battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court 
House, and Cool Harbor in 1864. He served during the siege of 
Petersburg, and in the rout and pursuit of General Lee's army, in 
April, 1865. "I was one of the few fortunate officers," he writes, 
" who got a chance to ride through the rebel lines. There I met General 
" Lee, and also his son ' Roonie,' then a General of cavalry, but whom' 
" I had known well as a student at Harvard." On 20 April, 1865, he 
resigned, and returned to Brookline, since which time he has accepted, 
he says, " the peaceful appointment of Commissioner for the restora- 
" tion of certain valuable fish to the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers." 
From May, 1859, to October, 1860, he was a Trustee of the State 
Reform School at Westborough. 

He was married, 28 November, 1856, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
George R. Russell, Esq., of West Roxbury. His daughter, Cora, 
was born in Florence, Italy, 9 March, 1862. 

MALCOLM MACEUEN. He resided in Philadelphia after the 
class separated, and studied law, but did not devote himself closely 
to its practice. 

WILLIAM MACK AY. On graduation he entered his father's count- 
ing-room to learn the details of the East India trade. On 3 February, 
1856, sailed from New York in the Ship Minstrel to Melbourne and 
the East Indies ; and, after visiting the gold mines at Ballarat, and going 
thence to Batavia and Singapore, where he loaded his ship for Boston, 
he went to China, and thence to Calcutta where he loaded another ship. 
Then, after a short trip up the country, he sailed for Suez, on 8 Novem- 
ber, 1856; and, after stopping in Egypt and at Malta, travelled in 
Europe for a year, returning at last to Boston, in October, 1857. 

He became on 1 January, 1858, a partner with his father in the 
firm of R. C. Mackay and Son in Boston, East India importers, 



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which, firm was dissolved on 1 July, 1865. On 3 May, 1858, he 
again visited Europe with his mother, where he remained until Novem- 
ber of that year. He is a director in the Washington National Bank 
of Boston, the American Insurance Company. Mercantile Insurance 
Company, and Morris Insurance Company of New York. 

On 7 November, 1859, he married in Baltimore, Susan Haslett, 
daughter of Robert and Charlotte Vanderburgh McKim. and has two 
children: Charlotte Langdon, born 31 October. 1861, and William 
Haslett, born 11 November, i860. Since his marriage he has lived 
in Boston, where he now resides at No. 174 Beacon Street. His office 
is at No. 47 State Street. 

WILLIAM S. McKENZIE. In September, 1855, he entered the 
Newton Theological Seminary. On 2 June, 1857, he was ordained as 
pastor of the Baptist church in East Abington, Mass., where he 
resided until 7 July. 1858. From that date he was pastor of the 
Baptist church in Andover until 6 February, 1S61. On 8 February, 
1861, he took up his abode in Providence as pastor of the Friendship- 
street Baptist church in Providence, EL. where he now lives. He 
writes, " My life has not been eventful, but one of hard labor in the 
sacred ministry. ... I have no journeys to record, except a visit to 
North Carolina in June, 1862 ; another to South Carolina and Virginia 
in March. 1S64; and a third in August, 1864, to the British Pro- 
vinces. ... I have but one classmate near me ; and he, the noble 
Hodges, lies in a cemetery which I almost daily pass, but never 
without thinking of him. . . . None knew him who did not love 
him." 

McKenzie was married on 1 October, 1657. in Gloucester, Mass.. 
to Elizabeth, daughter of David and Susan E. Stanwood. J. W. 
Meeeeee McKexzie, the Ceass Baet, was born in Andover, Mass., 
on 11 July, 1858. " Bright, healthy, frolicsome, and promising, if 
he lives, and goes to college, he will patronize Harvard. The depo- 
sit made by the Class in the Savings Bank in Boston for him is still 
there, and now amounts to nearly ninety dollars.^ 

* The class will remember that Theodore Lyman declared at our cl 
the appropriation for the Class Cradle would infallibly drive any 

one who might receive it into bankruptcy, by tempting him into undue and h 
jxtravs - nee in furnish': : : e ve ; : of his house tor h a seventy-five-dohar cradle. 
When the eventful day came, and our good classmate McKenzie, T. Lyman test*. 



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" In the Class Cradle has been rocked another, Lizzie Stanwood, 
born in Andover on 6 December, 1860." 

He is the author of " Sabbath-school Studies on the Life of 
Christ," which are four volumes of question-books published in 1858 
and 1859. He has written much for religious and secular newspa- 
pers, and is now a regular correspondent of a weekly religious paper 
printed in St. John, N.B. At the last Commencement at Brown 
University, he received the honorary degree of A.M. There have 
been no deaths in his family. 

GEORGE FREDERIC McLELLAN. When we graduated, his' 
residence was in Cambridge, where it continued to be until 2 July, 
1861, when he moved to Washington, D.C., where he has since 
remained. At the January term, 1857, he was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, and, in April of the same year, opened an office 4n Boston, 
where he remained in the practice of his profession until his removal 
to Washington. 

For a few months after his arrival in the latter city, he was con- 
nected with some of the New York City newspapers, as correspond- 
ent, but soon resumed the practice of law, in which he still continues. 
On 14 February, 1865, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. He holds the offices of Justice of the 
Peace, Notary Public, and Commissioner of Deeds; " connected with 
which," he says, " is neither ' profit, honor, or trust,' worth mention- 
ing." He has never married. 

CHRISTOPHER BRIDGE MARSH. His residence since 1855 
has been in the West : from 28 September, 1855, to 1 July, 1860, 
in Chicago, Illinois, where he was connected with an Insurance Com- 
pany, and also with the Michigan Central Railroad Company, as 
clerk; and from 1 July, 1860, to the present time, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, where he has been employed as Receiver of the Cincinnati 
Street Railroad Company, and for the last two years, as Cashier of 
the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, and the Dayton and Michigan 

thus suddenly brought to the brink of ruin, the Secretary, unwilling to plunge him 
into the abyss, ventured, after first buying ;> serviceable and handsome mahogany 
cradle and crib, to deposit the balance of the fund, $61.0fy in a Savings Bank, for 
the benefit of the Class Baby when he should outgrow the cradle. This is the depo- 
sit to which reference is made. 



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Railroad Companies. His office as Cashier he still holds. He was 
drafted, but afterwards exempted for physical disability. He writes 
that he has never studied any profession, held any public offices., been 
married, nor written any books. '• If you can see or find anything in 
" this uneventful career of mine, which is worthy of being handed to 
" posterity in the pamphlet you propose issuing, use it. ? ' He recently 
made a visit East, where he saw several of the class, and found a 
cordial welcome. He is evidently a thriving, prosperous man, and 
his visit gave much pleasure to those who met him. He very much 
regrets that his business prevents his being with us at Commence- 
ment. 

* WILLIAM WARD MERIAM. He was born at Princeton, 
Massachusetts, 15 September, 1830 : but after the death of his father, 
in 1834, his mother removed, with her children, to Cambridgeport, 
where she resided until her death, in 1850. In 1851, he united with 
the Orthodox Congregational Church at Cambridgeport. He graduat- 
ed with us in 1S55. and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1858. 
He was married to Miss Susan Dimond, of Cambridgeport. on 1 Sep- 
tember, 1858, was ordained at the same place 29 Xovember of the 
same year, and sailed from Boston for missionary labor in Turkey, 
with his wife, on 17 January, 1859 : arrived at Smyrna 22 February, 
and at Adrianople on 22 April, 1859. After spending some time at 
the latter place, studying the Turkish language, he went in October 
to the new station, Philippopolis, which was his field of labor until 
3 July. 1862, when he was brutally murdered by Turkish robbers. 

He was returning from the annual meeting of missionaries at Con- 
stantinople, in company with his wife and child, and had reached 
Hermanli, which is only nine miles from Philippopolis. Here he 
found a company hesitating whether to leave the village on account of 
the stories of robbers. As the party comprised fifteen armed people, 
Mr. Meriam deemed it prudent to proceed, and they accordingly 
continued their journey. They had passed the more dangerous part 
of the road, and were on the open plain, about two hours from 
Uzenjaova, when an armed company of five men was seen on the 
plain riding at some distance before them. When the robbers 
turned and rode towards them, forming on either side of the road, the 
two guards rode through, and were allowed to pass unmolested. 



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These faithless or frightened officials fled ; and when the sad tragedy- 
was ended, and the bereft company reached the station, these Turkish 
guards were found lazily smoking their chibouques. The carriages 
drove rapidly on, while the robbers were plundering the train, and 
that of Mr. Meriam was at first passed by them ; and it was his hope 
by rapid driving, to reach a place of safety. When the bandits had 
ended pillaging those behind, they rode rapidly after the carriages, 
firing into Meriam' s vehicle, and endangering the lives of his wife 
and child. Soon, one of the horses fell dead by a shot, and as escape 
by flight was thus rendered hopeless, he leaped from the talacca to 
defend his family, and called to the robbers, saying, " What are you 
doing ? " but fell almost instantly, pierced in the right side by two 
balls. Not content with murder, they added wanton insult to the 
almost lifeless form, clutching him by the hair, and dashing his head 
upon the ground, and then kicking him in the face. In a moment, 
Mrs. Meriam was by his side, but too late for any last words. 
" Then," writes the Rev. James 0. Murray, " came out the heroism 
of the wife and the missionary. Alone, she resisted all attempts to 
take her away from the body of her husband. Telegraphing to 
Philippopolis for friends, she went forward in hopes of soon meeting 
them, and sharing with them her burden of pious care for the dead. 

For two days, in consequence of most inexcusable 
delay at the telegraph stations, she watched by the side of her dead 
husband, straining her eyes to catch the first glimpse of approaching 
friends. Of the awful sadness of that journey, of the intense strain 
and pressure upon the womanly sensibilities, none can know but 
herself and God." 

We now quote from an account contained in the Missionary 
Herald : — " The tragedy by which Mrs. Meriam was deprived of 
her husband and protector did not take away her presence of mind. 
Placing her child on the ground (where the unconscious little girl 
quietly amused herself amid the fearful realities around), she, with the 
assistance of her Bulgarian girl, carefully collected and packed all the 
scattered papers and other articles, and then sat down to watch the 
dead body. The rest of the company had gone on to Uzcnjaova, and 
she was left alone, with a few Turkish guards who had come from the 
village. They told her to leave the body, which they would take care 
of, and go on to Uzcnjaova. She refused, and assured them that if 

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the body were left there, she should spend the night with it. After a 
time the Moodir of Hasskeuy, who had arrived at the village, sent 
out a conveyance by which she was taken to the khan, with her life- 
less treasure. 

" That night she remained with her child, in the same little room 
with her husband's remains. The Moodir came into see her, and was 
much overcome at the sight of the widowed mother and her child, 
watching by the beloved corpse. He procured what was necessary 
for their comfort, and took a deposition as to the wounds, and the cir- 
cumstances. She requested him to telegraph to me. He telegraphed 
to the Governor, supposing that the information would reach me. The 
next morning, 4 July, the Moodir procured a talacca for her, and 
another for the dead body ; but she, seeing that the wounded driver of 
Philippopolis must be left uncared for at "Uzenjaova, if she had two 
talaccas, gave up her own, and placed the child in charge of her girl 
in another, while she rode by the side of the bcdy. At the close of 
the first day the driver promised to start at midnight, and Mrs. Meriam 
remained with her child near the talacca of her husband, in the open 
air, anxiously waiting for the company to start, and constantly listening 
for the footsteps of coming friends, who she had no doubt would 
hasten to her on the receipt of the telegram. Daylight came before 
the slow-moving drivers could be induced to start, and no friends came. 

" From the time when her husband had fallen, through all that day, 
she shed no tears. But a little circumstance occurred on the second 
night which brought to her afresh the fact that she was alone among 
selfish strangers, and she found relief in weeping. 

" During the second day she wept much. The extreme heat had 
caused the commencement of decomposition in the body, but still she 
clung to the remains with a woman's devotion. Two hours from 
Philippopolis she prevailed on a Bulgarian boy to ride forward and 
inform us. He came a little before eleven o'clock, bringing me the 
first news of the murder, and I had only time to meet her just outside 
of the city. Her anxious face showed the suffering through which 
she had passed, but her first thoughts were for her husband, and her 
first request that immediate preparation might be made for the burial. 
When the dead body had been brought into the yard, and the door 
closed, she seemed to feel a relief from the terrible pressure which 



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had been weighing upon her, in the thought that she was now among 
friends, who would care for it. 

" Just after the sun had set, amid the shades of the evening before 
the Sabbath, his body was carried to its burial by devout men and by 
the representatives of every foreign government in the city. On the 
still night air the sweet words of a hymn, in Bulgarian, ' Sing to me 
of heaven when I. die,' floated gently away. Prayer was offered by 
his devoted associate and friend, Rev. J. P. Clark. In the little 
burial ground, which his effort had done so much toward securing and 
enclosing, he was laid to rest, among the people whom he loved and 
for whom he labored." 

Justice in the Turkish Empire moves with tardy and uneven pace. 
It is, however, a satisfaction to know that both the English and 
American authorities, united in demanding at the hands of the 
Sublime Porte, an unrelenting search for the assassins ; and the latest 
accounts in 1862 intimated the arrest of three of the murderers. 

In a sermon delivered at the Prospect Street Church, Cambridge- 
port, 14 September, 1862, from which we have already quoted, Mr. 
Murray thus alludes to him — " Full to the brim of tender memories 
concerning his native land, yet his face was ever toward the Orient. 
His home was there, not here. It is not remembered that he ever 
spoke, in his letters, of returning even for a visit. His fine domestic 
nature comes out in many little incidents connected with securing a 
residence ; yet the devoted missionary speaks in this sentence from 
one of his letters ; ' We have come here, however, not to be snugly 
housed and well fed.' Applying himself to the language, he is 
surprised to find so much aptitude for its acquisition ; an aptitude for 
languages beyond that manifested at home, but which, it seems, was 
latent in his mind, and only needed the impulse of a grand motive to 
be developed. . . . It is the testimony of Dr. Schauffler, that 
' he was one of the first missionaries of his generation, in Turkey.' 
' To me,' writes this veteran in the service of Christ, ' he was the 
future man of Turkey in Europe.' His explorations were thorough : 
one had just been completed before his departure to the annual 
meeting at Constantinople. ' Have been absent about five weeks and 
two days; travelled over seven hundred miles on horseback, sold (iffy 
dollars worth of books, and distributed two thousand tracts,' is (he 
brief entry in his journal at the close 1 of the (our. His facility of 



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gaining influence was copious ; — his executive ability, great ; — his 
courage, equal to any undertaking or any peril ; — his cheerfulness, 
inspiring others, and sustaining himself. His whole missionary 
character is well typified by the seal of Calvin, ' a hand holding out a 
burning heart.' It is most deeply affecting to read the letters from 
all his missionary brethren, written since the event, to the bereaved 
friends here, and to the officers of the Board. They express not 
only the tenderest sympathy, and the truest grief but a hearty admi- 
ration for the missionary character of Mr. Meriam, and a sense of 
loss which is as profound as it is undisguised."' 

Our tale of sorrow has a sad appendix. Mrs. Meriam, with a 
strength of character, and a devotion of purpose, which put her at 
once in the ranks of memorable women, endured the dreadful shock, 
bore up under the strain of subsequent distressing experience, in her 
sad journey by the dead body of her husband, and not until the last 
rite had been performed, and his body was laid in its grave, did she 
give way to obstacles, fatigues, or griefs. Then came a terrible 
re-action. The experience of those days of trial was too severe a 
strain upon mind and body, and was followed by premature confine- 
ment, by fever and death. On the morning of Friday, 25 July, 1862, 
she died ; and so gentle was her departure, that none knew when her 
spirit passed away. Her body now lies by the side of that of her 
husband, from whom she was separated only twenty-two days. The 
sermon before referred to, thus alludes to her : " There was in Mrs. 
Meriam, a rare fitness for the work to which she had given herself. 
No one who knew her, ever questioned for a moment what her record 
would be as a missionary. Not even the shock of the brutal murder 
of her husband would have paralyzed her, in its prosecution. She 
had announced her purpose of remaining in the field, to carry out 
plans mutually formed. Her natural heroism of character, her 
acknowledged talent, her firm womanliness, her unaffected piety ; — all 
this assures us that her name is worthy to be mentioned along with 
those of Ann Judson, and Harriet Newell." 

Mary Meriam, the little daughter, and the sole survivor of the 
terrible journey, was born in Bulgaria, in August 1861, and is now 
nearly four years old. She lives with her uncle, John N . Meriam, Esq., of 
Cambridgeport, who is said to be a man of property, and devotedly 
attached to the orphan child of his brother. She came from Turkey 



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about two years ago ; and, by the liberal rules of the missionary 
service, she would be well cared for, if she were in the hands of less 
kind friends. 

JAMES TYNDALE MITCHELL. After leaving Cambridge, he 
studied law in Philadelphia, under the direction of George W. Biddle, 
Esq., and was admitted to the Bar in November, 1857, since which 
time he has resided and practised his profession in Philadelphia. In 
1860, he received the degree of LL.B. from the University of Penn- 
sylvania. In May, 1860, he was appointed Assistant Solicitor of 
the city of Philadelphia, which office he resigned in January, 1863, 
and took the editorship of the American Law Register, which his 
energy has made the best legal magazine published in America. 
This position he still holds. He has been a loyal Union man at all 
times, voting for Fremont as soon as he had a vote, and for Abraham 
Lincoln afterwards. He served four weeks, in September, 1862, as a 
militia-man, in the 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, being at 
Hagerstown, Maryland, at the time of the battle of Antietam, and 
again in July, 1863. He says he did a good deal of hard marching, 
but very little fighting either time. He is unmarried. 

EDWIN MORTON. He taught in the family of Gerritt Smith, 
Esq., in New York, for some time after graduating. At the time of 
the John Brown insurrection he suddenly left for Europe, where he 
remained some months. On his return, he entered the Harvard Law 
School, and at one time purposed to practise law in New York City. 
He also proposed, and once attempted, to enter military service, but 
his health prevented his intent from being carried out. He was 
afterwards quite out of health, and at the latest accounts, was resid- 
ing in Plymouth, Massachusetts. 

ROBERT TREAT PAINE. He studied law at Cambridge for a 
year, and in September, 1856, sailed for Europe. He travelled one 
month in the south of Spain ; resided nine months in Italy ; travelled 
two summers in Switzerland ; studied the German language and 
literature eight months in Dresden and Berlin ; spent a few months 
at Paris, and in travelling through Holland, Belgium, England, and 
Scotland; and returned to Boston in October, 1858. lie studied 
law a year in the office of Messrs. R. IT. Dana, Jr., and Francis E. 



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Parker, and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in July, 1859, since 
which time he has practised law, and resided in Boston. He holds 
the office of Justice of the Peace, and is a member of the School 
Committee. He married in Boston, on 24 April, 1862, Lydia Wil- 
liams, daughter of George Williams Lyman, Esq., and Anne Lyman, 
all of Boston. His eldest daughter, Edith, was born 6 April, 1863. 
His second daughter, Fanny, was born 13 January, 1865. His office 
is at Xo. 42 Court Street. 

* STEPHEN GEORGE PERKINS. He was killed in the battle 
of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, on 9 August, 1862. Most of the fol- 
lowing account is borrowed from an excellent report of William W. 
Burrage, Esq., the Secretary of the class of 1856. He was the son 
of Stephen H. and Sarah S. (Sullivan) Perkins, and was born in Bos- 
ton 18 September, 1835. He was fitted for college partly by Thomas 
Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., and partly by William Parsons Atkinson, 
Esq. He entered with us, but trouble in his eyes forced him to give 
up study, and he afterwards returned to college, after a long absence, 
and joined the class below us, with whom he graduated in 1856. 
After graduation, he travelled in Europe, and returned in October, 
1857. He joined the Cambridge Law School at the March term, 1858, 
which he soon exchanged for the Scientific School in September, 
1859, as a student in mathematics, where he remained until he 
resolved to devote his strength to the service of the Union. He first 
received a commission as Second Lieutenant in Company H, Second 
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers on 8 July, 1861. He was pre- 
sent at the battles of Jackson, Front Royal, and Winchester, and 
shared in the famous retreat down the Shenandoah Valley. He was 
commissioned as First Lieutenant in the same regiment on 11 July, 
1862, and fell bravely fighting when his Regiment lost so many noble 
fellows at Cedar Mountain on 9 August. ■ 

The following account of his burial is taken from a letter dated 25 
September, 1862, and published in the Xew-York Evangelist by a 
clergyman of Washington, who was present on that occasion, and 
who had been impressed by the nobleness of his life and death. 

" The body was brought from that disastrous battlefield to Wash- 
ington, where it was met by the sorrow-stricken father, and conveyed 
to Oakhill Cemetery, Georgetown, where the funeral services were 



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performed without pomp or military parade, but to my mind and 
heart, in the most affecting simplicity. 

" There were four of us, — the father, Dr. Francis H. Brown, sur- 
geon of the Judiciary Square Hospital, and a young ministerial friend 
from the Union Theological Seminary of New York. As we were 
about to leave the superintendent's house, I beckoned to three 
wounded convalescents near by, and said to them, ' Boys, I have 
come here to, bury a young officer ; we have no guard ; fall in and act 
for us.' They obeyed promptly, giving the usual military sign- We 
went to the vault, and received the body, then moved to the grave." 

Near the monument of Bodisco, the Russian ambassador, is the 
grave of Stephen G. Perkins. 

" This bare outline of Perkins' life," writes one of his later class- 
mates who was his intimate friend in college, ' is all that he would 
have wished said of his whole career. Shall we, then, disregard this 
wish, and try to show the world how his whole life was spent in one 
search after truth ; how he helped to raise his friends to his own high 
level of thought ; how hating all false sentiment, his nature would 
sometimes burst through his usual self-control, and show a warmer 
heart than any of us had : and how, at last, he died as he had lived, 
fighting for truth and a principle ? 

" Let us rather crown his memory with verses chosen from a poem, 

which relates the inner life of our classmate as well as that of the 

poet's friend : — 

' Thy leaf has perished in the green ; 
And, while we breathe beneath the sun, 
The world, which credits what is done, 
Is cold to all that might have been. 

So here shall silence guard thy fame; 
But, somewhere out of human view, 
Whate'er thy hands are set to do 

Is wrought with tumult of acclaim. ' " 

While he was in the Scientific School, I had many pleasant hours 
with Perkins, when he used to come to my room and talk over those 
profound truths of life, and the future state, on which his mind 
loved to dwell, lie was a man with whom the current of thought and 
feeling ran very deep, though his reserve, except with his intimate 
friends, caused him to be appreciated and known by a few only, He 
possessed a mind of no ordinary power and clearness, ami was wholly 
loyal to his friends. 



WILLIAM DEAN PHILBRICK. For about a year after gradu- 
ating, he studied chemistry under Professor Cooke, acting as his 
assistant at lectures. He then spent about six months at the Roxbury 
Chemical Works, studying the application of Chemistry to the Arts, 
and then commenced the manufacture of certain chemicals, at South 
Boston, in which employment he spent about two years. He then 
erected a Coal Oil Factory at East Boston, and has ever since been 
busily employed in this nourishing business. In the spring of 1864, 
he took into his business as partner, Mr. William J. Parsons, son of 
Professor Theophilus Parsons, of the Harvard Law School, and has 
since been associated with him under the style of Philbrick & Parsons. 
Their place of business is No. 31 India Street. He is a Trustee of 
the Brookline Public Library, to which office he was elected by a 
vote of the town in 1864. He received the degree of A.B. at Com- 
mencement, 18-55. He writes, " I have resided at Brookline always, 
and hope I always shall."' 

He was married on 8 October, 1863, at Newport, Rhode Island, to 
Mary, daughter of James and Mary Staigg, of that place. His only 
son, Arthur, was born 26 November, 1864. 

WILLARD QUINCY PHILLIPS. Upon graduation, he went 
before the mast to the Pacific ocean. In 1857, he returned and 
entered the Harvard Law School, 1857, and went into an office in 
New Bedford in 1859. During the winter of 1859, he was admitted 
to the bar at Taunton, and in the same winter went to Europe, where 
he remained two years and a half, mostly in France and Italy. He is 
now engaged in farming. 

He married at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 11 June, 1863, 
Emily, daughter of Daniel Hearll, and Anna Langdon Treadwell, of 
Portsmouth. He has received the degrees of A.B. , A.M., and LL.B. 

. EDWARD SPRAGUE RAND. For the last ten years, he has 
resided in Cambridge and Boston, having been engaged in the practice 
of law. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in the autumn of 1858. 
He is the author of " Life Memories," published in 1858, pp. 175, 
12mo. ; " Flowers for the Parlor and Garden," published in 1864, 
pp. 400, 8vo., and " Manual of Orchard Culture," pp. 200, 8vo., 
which is now in press. He has received the degrees A.B., A.M., 



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and LL.B., and is a member of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and of the New 
England Historical Genealogical Society. 

He married 17 November, 1858, Jennie A., daughter of the Rev. 
Joseph P. and Maria M. Lothrop, of Bordentown, New Jersey. He 
has two sons, — Edward Sprague, born 22 August, 1859, and Harry 
Lothrop, born 1 January, 1861. Rand takes a very high stand 
among our New England botanists. He practises law chiefly in his 
ancestral department of conveyancing. 

JAMES REED. He writes, " My life since I graduated has been 
quite uneventful. I have gone on very much in the common course 
of mortals. For the first year after leaving college, I was employed as 
teacher in the Public Latin School, Boston. But at the expiration of 
that time, I entered at once upon the study of my profession, the 
ministry. 

" As there are no theological schools connected with the New 
Jerusalem Church, to which I belong, I was obliged to pursue my 
studies almost entirely alone. This, I feel, has been quite a disadvan- 
tage to me. But having, in April, 1858, completed a course which I 
had marked out, and which included among other things the study of 
Hebrew at the Divinity School, where I found Tileston, I applied for, 
and received, a license to preach. 

" Since April, 1858, I have been almost without intermission, occu- 
pied in the duties of my profession. On the first day of April, 1860, 
I was ordained and settled as Assistant Minister of the Boston Society 
of the New Jerusalem Church, of which Rev. Thomas Worcester, D.D., 
has, for nearly forty-seven years, been the pastor. In this position 
I have continued ever since. As the society is quite a large one, and 
its members scattered over an extensive area, I am never at a loss for 
active employment. 

"I was married on 19 December, 1858, to Emily Elizabeth, 
daughter of Francis and Adeline Ripley, of Boston. We have four 
children; — Catharine Clark, born 21 September, 1859, — John 
Sampson, born 4 April, 1861, — Gertrude, born 8 March, 1868, — 
and Miriam, born 17 November, 18(5 1. 

"These are all the circumstances of my life which seem worthy of 
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mention. The only college degree I have received since graduating, 
is that of A. M. (price $5.00)." 

I forbear to add to his own account of himself, lest it might seem 
egotistical for one of the " Siamese Twins" to discuss the merits of 
the other ; and also for the reason that it would cause a confusion 
of ideas between the said twins, since the question has never been 
settled which is Chang ; and which, Eng. 

WILLIAM WHITING RICHARDS. In the autumn of 1855, he 
opened a private High School in Sherborn, Massachusetts, intending 
then merely to teach one term ; but unexpected success there induced 
him to remain one term longer. Of this period, he writes, " I con- 
" sider the time spent in this place as most profitable to me in every 
*' sense of the word, and I owe my determination to teach awhile 
" longer to the pleasure and kind aid I received in my connection with 
"the Sherborn High School," In the spring of 1856, seeing in a 
Boston paper an advertisement of the sale of a school out West, he 
answered it, visited the place, and in May became the proprietor of 
the High School in Quincy, Illinois. He was much pleased with his 
residence in Quincy ; and would have remained there, had not sickness 
called him home. In September, 1857, he accepted the post of First 
Assistant in the Private Latin School of E. S. Dixwell, Esq., in Bos- 
ton, where he has remained until the present time. He -wrote a 
lecture on " Goldsmith and his Oddities," which he delivered before 
the Lyceum in Quincy, Illinois. He is yet unmarried, and will pro- 
bably abandon teaching for a mercantile life. He says he shall come 
to the dinner, and adds, " I am altogether too thin just now to miss 
a good feast." 

WILLIAM QUINCY RIDDLE. He began the study of law soon 
after we separated, and in 1856 and 1857, he was in the Law School 
at Cambridge. He went to New York, to start in his business, and 
for several years practised with George Ireland, Esq. At the time of 
the Gettysburg campaign, he left with the New York troops to defend 
Harrisburg. He is now in practice at No. 69 Liberty Street. He 
thinks there are no incidents of his .life worth relating. He doubts if 
he can break away from business during Commencement week, but 
wishes us " much joy and pleasure upon the occasion." 



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NATHANIEL EOPES. In the fall of 1855, he went to Cincin- 
nati, where he has continued in business most of the time with his 
father. He is unmarried. 

ANTOINE RUPPANNER. He has resided in Boston since 1855, 
and practised there as a physician. He was " admitted at Harvard 
" College on Commencement day 1857, as a member of the medical 
" fraternity ; and began to practise the next day." He visited Europe 
in May, 1859, and spent eight months there in professional culture, 
serving two months as a surgeon in the Italian war. He has written 
a number of articles, republished in pamphlet, on the treatment of 
various kinds of neuralgia, the gout, rheumatism, and other diseases 
by Hypodermic injections, which have been published in the different 
medical journals. He has received the degrees of A. B., A. M., and 
M. D. He is Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; Member 
of the Suffolk District Medical Society ; and Member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association He served several weeks in August, 1862, 
as Volunteer Surgeon, in the campaign of General Banks, against 
Stonewall Jackson. He was married at St. Paul's Church, Boston, 
22 November, 1860, to Miss Susan M. Mower, of Woodstock, 
Vermont. He has no children. He sailed in company with his wife 
for Europe 21 June, 1865. 

EDWARD GRENVILLE RUSSELL. He entered the Divinity 
School at Cambridge soon after we left college. He graduated, and 
for a while was engaged in preaching, but latterly has been otherwise 
occupied. He is married, and lived, when last heard from, in Cam- 
bridge. 

GEORGE PEABODY RUSSELL. He entered with us at Har- 
vard, but left in the Sophomore year. He afterwards returned, and 
joined the next class, with whom he graduated in 1856. He writes, 
" My answer to the circular, kindly sent by you, must, of necessity, be 
brief, as my life since graduating has been particularly quiet.' I was 
admitted to the bar in February, 1859, after studying in the Law 
School, at Cambridge, in the office of my father in Haverhill, and in 
that of Hon. Rufus Choate, in Boston. I began practising here in 
May, 1859. I was married on 5 July, 1860, to Lucy Isabel, daughter 
of Rev. George W. Campbell, of Bradford. Since my marriage, I 
have been living in Haverhill with the exception of spending the 



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summer and fall of 1862, at the West, and of occasional journeys in 
the New England States, and Western New York. I have had 
nothing to do with the war, except serving perforce in the person of 
a substitute. I wish I could accept your very kind invitation to be 
present at Commencement, but I fear I shall be obliged to be out of 
the State at that time." 

FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN. His residence since 
graduation, was constantly at Concord, Massachusetts, where he was 
engaged in teaching, until 14 February 1863, when he became pub- 
lisher and Editor of the Commonwealth, which position he relinquished 
2 October 1863, when he received the commit si on, from Governor 
Andrew, of Secretary of the Board of State Charities, which office he 
still holds. He was Secretary of the Massachusetts State Kansas 
Committee, with duties of a semi-public, and quite important character, 
and from 1859 to 1864, held the office of Secretary of the School 
Committee in Concord. A poem of his. was printed in November 
1559, in a volume called '"Fraternity Poems:" his "America" 
making about half the volume. In March, 1S62, he published a 
pamphlet styled "Emancipation in the West Indies:'' in 1SG5. a 
volume consisting chiefly of his •'First Annual Eeport, as Secretary 
of the Board of State Charities," and in February, 186-5, a " Special 
Report on Prisons, and Prison Discipline." Besides this, he has 
written extensively in the following Newspapers,— -Boston Telegraph : 
Traveller ; Fine and Palm ; Commonwealth : Springfield Republican; 
and, more or less, in the Atlantic Monthly, and Religious Magazine. 
He is a member of the American Oriental Society. 

He was married at Indiana-place chapel. Boston, 16 August 1862, 
to Louisa Augusta, daughter of Joseph M., and Eliza Leavitt, of 
Woburn, Massachusetts. His only son, Thomas Parker, was born 23 
February, 1865. 

" There are," he writes, i; several events in my life since graduat- 
ing, which are ' worthy of record,' because they have brought me in 
contact with the great political revolution which has taken place since 
1855. I was actively engaged in the effort to make Kansas a free 
State in 1856-7-8, which finally succeeded in 1861. I was a friend 
and supporter of Captain John Brown in his expedition into Virginia 
in 1859, and became publicly known in that connection." 



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A warrant was issued at that time by the United States Senate to 
enforce .obedience to a summons to attend before a committee which 
was investigating the John Brown raid, of which committee James 'M. 
Mason, late rebel commissioner to England, and Jefferson Davis were 
members. It was directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, and was by him 
given to a deputy to be served. Under it an arrest was attempted on 
the night of 3 April, 1860, which was so vigorously resisted by our 
classmate, that time was gained the neighbors to assemble and rescue 
him ; and for a writ of habeas corpus to be issued by Mr. Justice Hoar. 
When the writ was returned, the Supreme Judicial Court decided that 
the arrest was illegal, and that the Sergeant-at-Arms, whatever power 
he might himself have, could not so delegate it to a deputy, and San- 
born was therefore finally discharged. A full report of the proceed- 
ing is given in Sanborn s case (23 Law Reporter, 7 — 20, and 22 Law 
Reporter, 730 — 735). Of this occurrence he writes, " An attempt was 
made to drag me in irons from my house here to Washington. This 
was on the night of 3 April, 1860. On the next day, having been 
released from these wretches by my neighbors who acted under the 
laws of Massachusetts as a sheriff's posse to enforce a writ of habeas 
corpus issued by Judge Hoar, I appeared before the Supreme Court of 
this Commonwealth, and was declared at liberty to go where I pleased. 
I went home to my ordinary way of life, and was not further molested 
by Mason or Davis." 

He was present at, and had a share in, the noted meeting in Tre- 
mont Temple, 3 December, 1860, where disturbance was made, and 
the Governor called upon to protect those who were engaged in the 
meeting. " In course of the same winter, I hajd occasion, several times, 
to go armed to various public meetings in Boston, to defend my friend 
Wendell Phillips from threatened violence ; and I spent one night at 
his house in company with three other gentlemen, when that was 
threatened with an attack by night. 

" This portion of my life I regard as the best spent. It was also 
the only hazardous portion of it, for I have taken no active part in 
the war which has just closed. 

"In the year I860, I acted as one of the executors of the will of 
the late Theodore Parker, with whom I had been for several years on 
very intimate terms of friendship. Indeed, my closest associations, 
since graduating, have been with the extreme an(i-sluwT\ party." 



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CHARLES FREDERIC SANGER. His residence, for the last 
ten years, has been in Brooklyn, and his business, that of wholesale 
dealer in straw goods, in New York City. He has received the 
degrees of A.B. and A.M. He has never been married. He writes 
that he hopes and intends to be lt counted in at the supper." 

GEORGE CARLETON SAWYER. After graduating, he went 
at once to Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in teach- 
ing Greek and Latin at the Phillips Academy, until May, 1858, when 
he went to Utica, New York, since which time he has had charge of 
the Utica Academy. This substantial and commodious building was 
destroyed by fire in May last, but it is expected that it will be 
speedily replaced. 

He was married 29 July, 1858, to Mary Abbot, daughter of Eliza- 
beth Abbot and Dr. D. W. Gorham, of Exeter, N. H. William 
Gorham Sawyer, his only child, was born 10 May, 1860. 

SAMUEL RINGGOLD SCHLEY. He went home to Baltimore 

in 1855, and was a student of law in the office of his father, Hon. 

William Schley. But he afterwards gave up the law, and has been 
engaged in farming. 

JAMES MANY SEAWELL. He went to Philadelphia in 1856 
or 1857, and studied law with John C. Bullitt, Esq. He was admit- 
ted to the bar in December, 1858, and for two years practised law in 
Philadelphia. Colonel Seawell, his father, was, early in 1861, ordered 
to the Pacific coast, to take command there, and our classmate went 
with his father to San Francisco ; was there admitted to the bar, and 
is now living there in practice of the law. 

He married, in 1863 or 1864, the daughter of an Episcopal clergy- 
man in San Francisco, and has a son, recently born. 

CHARLES FRANCIS STONE. He resided in Oxford, Chenango 
County, New York, from October, 1855, to April, 1860, where he was 
engaged in studying law. During this time he visited England, the 
Continent, and South Carolina, spending the time from the spring of 
1857 to that of 1859 in travelling. From 1860 to 1864 he was in 
the office of Charles O' Conor, Esq., in New York city, and since 
May, 1864, he has practised law at No. 4 ) Wall street, New York. 



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In 1862 he received the degree of A. M., and since 28 September, 
1864, has held the office of Commissioner for Connecticut. He is 
unmarried. 

EDWARD PAYSON THWING. The summer after graduating 
he spent in travel, visiting England, Scotland, Ireland, and friends on 
the Isle of Wight. Thence he proceeded to Paris, and visited Brus- 
sels, Cologne, Coblentz, and saw the beauties of the Rhine, returning 
in the autumn. The three following years he spent in the Andover 
Theological Seminary, graduating in August, 1858, being then the 
pastor-elect of the St. Lawrence Street Church, a Congregationalist 
society in Portland, Maine, over which he was ordained 22 Septem- 
ber, 1858. He remained in this city till the summer of 1862, when, 
having received a unanimous call from a church in his native state, 
and near Boston, he was dismissed August, 1862 ; and 19 November, 
1862, was ordained over the Hancock Street Church, Quincy, where 
he is now settled. He is Chaplain of a Council of United States 
Union League, a Vice-President of the East Norfolk Temperance 
Union, and sustains other similar relations to various bodies. Pie 
received the degree of A.M. in 1858. In the summer of 1859, he 
made a tour in Canada, visiting Montreal, Quebec, and the Falls of 
Montmorenci. During the summer of 1864, he travelled through 
nine states, from Bangor, on the north, to Wilmington, Delaware, on 
the south. He is the author of " The Royal Request," 16mo., pp. 
16, published August, 1859 ; " A Voice from the Battle Field," pub- 
lished on the death of Henry A. Holden, 13th Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers, 18mo., pp. 12, published in October, 1862 ; " The Bugle 
Call," a holiday sheet for the soldiers, issued at Christmas, 1864, and 
New Year's, 1865, and for which the Hon. Edward Everett wrote one 
of his last papers, and " Public Worship," a discourse published in 
February, 1865, by request of his parishioners. He married on 28 
December, 1859, at Portland, Susan M., daughter of Mary H. and 
Captain Edward Waite, of Portland. His children are, Grace, born 
5 January, 1861, Clarence, born 29 June, 1862, and Herbert, born 22 
December, 1863. •• My military experience," be writes, " is brief. 
"My only fightings have been with Northern secessionists' and copper- 
' ' heads, whom I have fought with pen and purse, in the pulpit ami 
" with the press, and from whom 1 have received ' honorable sears.' 



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JOHN BOIES TILESTON. Soon after leaving college, he went 
to Europe, where he remained about ten months. In September, 
1856, he entered the Divinity School, at Cambridge, where he passed 
one Academic year. In December, 1857, he went into business, 
and subsequently went to New York, where, for some months, he wrote 
on the New American Encyclopaedia ; and denominates what he did as 
"literary hack work." In May, 1858, he became a publisher and 
bookseller, and in this business he is still engaged. His present firm 
is that of Brewer and Tileston, No. 131, Washington Street; and his 
residence is in Boston. 

He says he has written no books, but numerous and sundry letters, 
of which no collection has, as yet, been made, and he is not aware 
that any is proposed to be made. 

WILLIAM HOSMER SHAILER VENTRES. He entered the 
Newton Theological Institution in 1855, where he graduated in 1858, 
and accepted the pastoral care of the First Baptist Church in Paris, 
Maine, having been ordained at Portland, Maine, 2 July, 1858. He 
was married in Brookline, Massachusetts, 23 November, 1858, to 
Eliza, daughter of Sarah and George Murdock, of Brookline. His 
children are William Richardson, born 28 August, 1859 ; Mary Eliza, 
born 26 November, 1861 ; and J. Warren, born 16 May, 1864. 

ISAAC PARKER WAINWRIGHT. He lives in Boston, and is 
engaged in some business on Federal Street. 

HENRY WALKER. He resided in Quincy ; and in November 
1855, entered the office of Messrs. Hutchins and Wheeler, as a law 
student; but his health failing, he spent three months of the summer 
of 1857, in travelling through Nova Scotia. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk Bar on 1 January, 1858, and, in the following March, took an 
office at No. 5, Court Street. His health -then entirely broke down, 
and he sailed in the ship Andes, Captain Putnam, from Boston for the 
East Indies, on 10 November, 1858. He visited Columbo and other 
parts of Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, and other places, returning home 
25 September, 1859, having made both voyages round Cape of Good 
Hope. In September he again took an office with Mr. J. Wingate 
Thornton, at No. 20 Court Street. On 19 November, 1859, he was 
appointed on a committee for rebuilding the Episcopal Church in 



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Quincy. He was a candidate in the same year for representative to 
the General Court from Quincy but failed of an election by twelve 
votes. He was appointed Justice of the Peace, for Suffolk County, 
8 May, 1860, and Third Lieutenant of Co. H, 4th Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Militia, on 21 July, 1860. In the fall of the 
same year, he was a candidate for State Senator, from the West 
Norfolk District, but failed of the nomination by one vote. Under 
General Order, No. 4, from Governor Andrew, in March, 1861, he 
enrolled his name as one ready to march if called out by the Federal 
Government. "On 15 April, 1861," he writes, " I responded to the 
call for 75,000 men. On the 17th, in full uniform, attended by 
drummer and fifer, I marched through Quincy, and recruited twenty 
men, the first men who were so recruited, and at half-past three in 
the afternoon, left with the 4th Massachusetts for Fortress Monroe, 
landing there on the 20th." On 27 May, he was ordered to Newport 
News, Virginia, and volunteered to accompany the expedition to Big 
Bethel, on 10 June, 1861, which he did, and on his return remained 
with his regiment at Hampton, Virginia, until 19 July, 1861, when 
they left for home, and were mustered out of service on 26 July. 
He spent the following year mostly engaged in military matters. 
On May 4, 1862, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th 
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; and, on the call for troops, 
after the retreat of General Banks down the Shenandoah Valley, in 
June, 1862, by riding through the country about the South Shore, he 
rallied eight hundred men in forty-eight hours. He expected, under 
the call for 300,000 men, July, 1862, to have had a regiment, as he 
had six companies at Lynnfield, part of whom he had been engaged in 
raising. Orders from the War Department, however, distributed these 
among fuller organizations, and he immediately proceeded to recruit 
the 4th Massachusetts, for the nine months' service, having volunteered 
his services two hours after the call was received in Boston. He 
recruited, directly and indirectly, over twelve hundred men, and was 
commissioned Colonel on 6 December, 1862. He left for New 
Orleans on 2 January, 1863, after having lain in New York harbor 
one week. He landed at Carrollton, Louisiana, on 10 February, and 
in the following March started for Baton Rouge, where he arrived the 
following morning, when the regiment was attached to Third Brigade, 
First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, General Emory commanding. 
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that the Union Drill Club, of Salem, to which he had belonged, was 
enlisted for the war, and that his old chum, James A. Emmerton, was 
a corporal in it. He went to the barracks on the day following, and 
enlisted as corporal too. The next day the Club marched to Lynn- 
field, and became Company F, of the 23d Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers, and there encamped. In November the regiment went to 
Annapolis, Maryland, and came under the command of Brigadier 
General John G. Foster, who commanded the First Brigade of the 
Burnside Expedition. He remained in the company until early in 
May, 1862, when the regiment came in from Bachelor's Creek to do 
provost-guard duty in Newbern. He was then detailed as clerk, at 
Academy General Hospital, then in charge of Surgeon George Derby, 
23d Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, who was succeeded by Sur- 
geon Clayton A. Cowgill, United States Volunteers, with whom he 
remained during the rest of his term of service, in the various offices 
to which Dr. Cowgill was appointed, viz. : Surgeon in charge of 
Academy General Hospital ; Surgeon in charge of Stanley General 
Hospital; Superintendent of General Hospital, District of North 
Carolina ; Acting Medical Inspector of North Carolina, and Surgeon in 
charge of Foster General Hospital, which was formed by the consoli- 
dation of all the hospitals in Newberne. He was in the latter office 
when his term of service expired, 28 September, 1864 ; but the sickly 
season was at its height, and, knowing his services to be needed, he 
nobly stayed, until, when the press of work was almost over, he was 
himself taken down ; and, owing to this attack of sickness, he was not 
able to leave Morehead City until 5 November. He remained at home 
in Salem till 26 December, when he left for Port Royal, South Carolina, 
in company with his uncle, who was going there to pass the winter 
and spring. On arriving at Beaufort, early in January, he was per- 
suaded by his friend, Capt. J. A. Goldthwait, Post Commander, to 
accept the position of his head clerk, which situation he filled far two 
months, and then, he says ; " I gladly left, having more work than I 
" cared to do, as during that time General Sherman's army was in the 
" neighborhood, and we had to feed nearly half of i.t." After spending 
a month on his uncle's plantation, he returned to New York on May 
day, since which time he has lived at home in Salem. 

Waters is another classmate who lias done us great credit by his 
faithful, unpretending service. Like! Corporal llosmcr, he more than 






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once refused promotion, I am informed, and his devotion to what he 
thought his duty, which kept him in the midst of pestilence, where 
men were dying about him in crowds, although his term of service 
had expired, does not find many parallels in the whole war. The 
class has a right to be proud of its two " corporals." 

WALTER HENRY WILD. He left us at the end of our Soph- 
omore year. His residence since 1855, has been at North Providence, 
Rhode Island, where he was engaged in farming until 1860, when 
he went to Texas, and was in Galveston when the war broke out. 
He hurried home, escaping from Texas with much difficulty, and 
enlisted as Sergeant in a Ehode Island battery attached to Burnside's 
1st Regiment Rhode Island Militia, of three months' troops. He 
went through that campaign, and again enlisted in January, 1862, as 
Bugler, in the 3d Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. He went to South 
Carolina, and was commissioned February, 1863, as Second Lieutanant 
in Ullman's African Brigade. On 1 May, 1863. he became First 
Lieutenant in the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers (colored). 
On 12 August, 1568, he was promoted to a captaincy in the 2d Regiment 
North Carolina Colored Volunteers, now styled 36th United States 
Colored Troops, and a part of General Wilds' African Brigade. He 
is still in service with this last commission, and has now gone to 
Texas with the Twenty-fifth Army Corps. While holding his commis- 
sion as Captain in the 36th Regiment United States Colored Troops, 
he has almost all the time been detailed for staff duties, holding at 
different times the following staff positions : — Acting Assistant Adju- 
tant General of Wild's Brigade; Acting Assistant .Inspector General 
in same Brigade ; Acting Aide-de-camp of General Wild; Post Adju- 
tant of Newport News, Virginia, for seven and a half months ; Acting 
Provost Marshal of 1st Division Twenty-fifth Army Corps; and is 
now Ordnance Officer of Artillery Brigade, attached to the Twenty- 
fifth Army Corps. He was wounded by a rifle ball in the head at the 
battle at Wilson's Wharf, James Biver, Virginia, on 25 May, 1864. 
He is unmarried. 

JOSEPH WILLARD. In September, 1855, he became principal 
of the Derby Academy at Hingham, Massachusetts, which he left 1 
December, 1855, to join Rev. S. R. Calthrop in a private school at 



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Bridgeport, Connecticut. In June, 1856, he returned to Boston, and 
on 1 December, 1856, he entered the Cambridge Law School, where 
he graduated in July, 1858, taking the degree of LL. B. He resided 
in Cambridge from June, 1857, to July, 1862, reading law, assisting 
Law Professors in their law publications, and teaching private pupils. 
In July, 1862, he removed to Boston, and entered the law office of 
Hon. G. S. Hillard. On 29 January, 1863, he was admitted, to the 
Suffolk Bar, and became a partner with Mr. Hillard. In October, 
1863, he was appointed Clerk, pro tern, in the Superior Court, Suffolk 
County, and acted as such until May, 1865. He is not married; 
says he has never written or published on his own account ; and has 
no military history. 

SMITH WRIGHT. He entered the Harvard Law School at the 
fall term of 1855, where he remained one year. In the autumn of 
1856, he became assistant teacher in the Eliot High School, at 
Jamaica Plains, remaining here until January, 1858. He then entered 
the law office of Messrs. Ranney and Morse, in Boston, and in the 
spring term of 1858 returned to the Harvard Law School, where he 
remained one term, at the close of which he received the degree of 
LL. B. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in June, 1858. In 
March, 1859, he took the position of Clerk in the office of Messrs. 
J. B. Clapp & Son, Real Estate Brokers, Boston ; and on 1 January, 
1863, became a partner in that firm, where he now remains. 

He was married 8 July, 1857, to Harriet Margaret, daughter of 
Joshua B. and Clarissa Clapp, of Boston. He has had three sons, 
Walter Smith, who was born ten March, 1859, and died 22 July, 
1859; Albert Smith, who was born 20 January, 1861, and died 11 
April, 1861 ; Francis Newton, who was born 10 August, 1862, and 
is still living. He resides at 27 South Russell Street, Boston. 

* ANDREW LAMMEY YONGUE. The following account is 
taken from the Annual Obituary of Harvard Graduates, compiled 
by Dr. Palmer. 

•' He was killed on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, 
at Columbia, S. C, 17 November, 1859, aged 31, .He was the 
youngest of three children (the others, a brother named Robert 
A., and a sister, named Sarah) of William and Elizabeth (Lammey) 



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Yongue, and was born in Buckhead, Fairfield District, S. C. 12 
April, 1828. Both his parents died several years since. His 
father died 13 November, 1842, aged 77 years, and his mother died 
19 January, 1844. He was prepared for the South Carolina College 
at the Mount Zion Collegiate Institute, J. W. Hudson, Principal, 
Winnsborough, S. C. He entered the Sophomore class of the S. C. 
College, December, 1851, and left, December, 1852, with one hundred 
and ten others, who were compelled to leave on account of what is 
known as the "Biscuit Rebellion." He entered the Sophomore class 
of Harvard College, March, 1853. It was his intention after gradua- 
tion to prepare for the ministry, but his health became delicate from 
exposure during his residence at college, and passing to and fro, so 
that, in a measure, he had to give up study, and he settled on a farm 
inherited from his father : but, becoming embarrassed by the deaths of 
his negroes, and other misfortunes, he was forced to change his busi- 
ness. He then taught school for eighteen months with a view still 
for the ministry if his health would permit. To raise further funds 
to enable him to carry out his purpose, he obtained the situation of 
conductor on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. About three 
months after entering upon his new duties, he met with the unfortunate 
accident which terminated his life. He attempted to step on the train 
while in motion, his foot slipped and he fell under the cars, the wheels 
passed over both his legs, one was taken off above the knee, and the 
other broken above the ancle ; this was on the 16th November and 
he died the next day, 17th. He bore his sufferings with great patience 
and not a murmur escaped his lips, believing it was the will of his 
heavenly Father that he should die thus, and for some good end. He 
died with a prayer upon his lips, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit." He 
was buried at the Salem church, Fairfield District, of which he was 
a member. He was never married. 

" One calamity follows another in quick succession. Robert A. 
Yongue, the only brother of Andrew L., died on the 4th February, 
1860, having been left by the cars 7 miles from Charleston while 
warming himself at a fire by the road ; and, in attempting to walk over 
a high trestle (30 feet) stepping on a rotten plank which gave way, 
he fell, through the distance mentioned, on stumps, and into water four 
feet deep. His remains were not found until the next day. He was 



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a graduate at the South Carolina College some years ago. He left a 
widow and two children to mourn their loss. 

" Their sister Sarah, the only surviving member of the family, was 
in 1855 the wife of David Milling, Esq., of Mill View, Fairfield Dis- 
trict, S, C, where he holds the office of Postmaster. She was in 
feeble and delicate health after the melancholy deaths of her brothers 
following each other in so quick succession." 



SUMMARY. 



The following members of the class are known to have been in the military 
service of the United States during the war, and to have held the following 
rank : — 

Francis C. Barlow, Major General of Volunteers. 
"William W. Badger, Captain in the " Stanton Legion." 
Channing Clapp, Assistant Adjutant General, with rank of Captain. 
Randolph M. Clark, Captain, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. 
Thomas W. Clarke, Colonel, 29th Massachusetts Infantry. 
Joseph M. Cushing, Quartermaster, Baltimore Union League. 
Edward B. Dalton, Surgeon, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 
James A. Emmerton, Surgeon, with rank of Major. 
Henry S. Everett, Captain, on Staff of General Saxton. 
John Green, "Contract" Surgeon. 

Joseph Gtttman, First Lieutenant, 51st New York Volunteers. 
Joseph Hates, Brigadier General of Volunteers. 
Henry L. Higginson, Major, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. 

* George F. Hodges, Adjutant, 18th Massachusetts Infantry. 

James K. Hosmer, Corporal of the Color Guard, 52d Massachusetts Infantry. 
Samuel C. Lawrence, Colonel, 5th Massachusetts Militia. 
Theodore Lyman, Lieutenant Colonel, Aide-de-camp on Staff of General 
Meade. 

James T. Mitchel t , 8th Pennsylvania Militia. 

* Stephen G. Perkins, First Lieutenant, 2d Massachusetts Infantry. 
William Q. Riddle, New York Militia, — Gettysburg campaign. 
Antoine Ruppanner, Surgeon. 

Henry Walker, Colonel, 4th Massachusetts Militia. 
Henry F. Waters, Corporal, 23d Massachusetts Infantry. 
Walter H. Wild, Captain, 36th United States Colored Troops. 
Total, 24. 

The following names upon our roll have received the star : 

* Warren Brooks, 4 February, 1857. 

* Andrew L. Yongue, 17 November, 1859. 

* George F. Hodges, 31 January, 1862, 



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*Langdon Erving, 20 May, 1862. 

* William W. Meriam, 3 July, 1862 . 

* Stephen G. Perkins, 9 August, 1862. 
*Payson P. Ellis, 28 September, 1863. 

Total, 7. 

The following members of the class are known to have been married ; 

Abbot, Agassiz, Amory, Barlow, Bliss, E. J. Brown, Buck, Chase, R. M. 
Clark, Crocker, Cutler, Dalton, Edgerly, Erving, W. H. Evans, Eiske, Gibbens, 
Gregory, Gutman, Hampson, Higginson, Hosmer, Lawrence, T. Lyman, Mackay, 
McKenzie, Meriam, Paine, Philbrick, Phillips, Rand, Reed, Ruppanner, E. G. 
Russell, G. P. Russell, Sanborn, Sawyer, Seawell, Thwing, Ventres, Wright. 
Total, 41. 

The following classmates have earned at least the jus trium liberum : 

W. H. Evans, Fiske, Gibbens, Reed, Thwing, Ventres, Wright. 

The Class is known to have had, on an average, four and four-fifths babies 
every year since we graduated, or six and six- sevenths babies, on an average, 
since McKenzie gave us the first, in 1858. The collective offspring of the Class, 
as officially known to the Secretary, numbers, at present, forty-eight. It is to 
be regretted, however, that we have shown an undue masculine propensity, 
which has resulted, it is to be feared, in totally destroying the equilibrium of 
the sexes in our second generation. While we have thirty-three sons, we have 
only fifteen daughters ; and consequently the little girls are very much too few 
in number to properly civilize the boys. We may nevertheless find some con- 
solation in the thought that the second edition of the class of 1855 at Harvard, 
promises, at this rate of production, to be a large one. 

The employments of the class may be presented, as follows : — 

Theology; — P. Brooks, Buck, Cutter, W. H. Evans, Hosmer, McKenzie, 
Reed, Thwing, Ventres : — 9. 

Medicine ; — Dalton, Emmerton, Green, Ruppanner : — 4 . 

Law; — Abbot, Badger, Barlow, E. I. Browne, Chace, J. B. Clark, T. W. 
Clarke, A. D. Evans, Gregory, Gutman, Heywood, Hobbs, Jones, McLcllan, 
Mitchell, Morton, Paine, Phillips, Rand, Riddle, G. P. Russell, Seawell, Stone, 
Walker, Willard : — 25. 

Mercantile Business ; — Amory, Arnold, Blake, E. J. Brown, Burns, R. M. 
Clark, Clapp, Crocker, Cushing, Dexter, Edgerly, Everett, Fiske, Hayes, Higgin- 
son, Johnston, Lawrence, Mackay, Marsh, Philbrick, Ropes, Sanger, Tileston, 
Wainwright, Wild, Wright : — 26. 

Science ; — Agassiz, T. Lyman : — 2. 

Teaching ; — Gibbens, Hampson, Richards, Sawyer : — 1. 

Engineering ; — B, S. Lyman : — L. 
Architecture ; — Longfellow : — I . 
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Fasmdtg ; — Bliss, Schley : — 2. 

Prsuc Omcz ; — C. A. '. fa : :■ inborn : — 2. 

TTwt TRRTATw ; — Allison, Bailey, Balch, Bamvrc-11, C. L. Brown, C. F. Lyman, 
Maeeuen, E. G. Russell, Waters. —9.-85. 

Ma star, — W. Brooks, Ellis, EtyL ; Hodges, . leriam, Perkins, 

Tongue, — 7. 

"Whole number of class, 92. 






_: Hass :?.dle fell to the lot of McKenzie, whose son, J. W 
McKkhzeb, ihz Class I .by, was bom upon 11 July, 1858, at Andover, . 
ehusetts. Indue time he received the cradle; and he is, consequently, now a 
" bright, healthy, frolicsome, and promising" child. 

It has been the invariable custom of the Class to have a room, in the College 
Buildings, open upon Commencement Day for its entertainment ; and to hold 
there a business meeting at noon. So long as the present incumbent continues 
to be Secretary, that custom will be observed. The average attendance at our 
meetings since we graduated has been quite large, and is about forty; 

Our first class-dinner was served on Commencement Day, L858, when we 
took our Master's legree. Theodore Lyman presided. Our second came in 
1860, in order to conform to the triennial year. It was served at the Par- 
... House, and Langdon Erring presided. The war has since prevented our 
having similar reunions. This year we meet for the third time. Your local 
committee, John B. Tileston and Edward I. Browne, appointed last Commence- 
ment Day, have made every preparation for your pleasure. Theodore Lyman 
will preside; and at this auspicious time, when • :-:.; : returns to our country 
with all its cheerful blessings, we shall celebrate with every pleasant augury the 
beginning of the second decade of our graduate life. E. PL A, 

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